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MER THE GRAFTERS I AID prohibition :w fire trap ; ;
Grand Jury Lays , Bare Bad
Conduct of Officers
THE SYMPATHETIC STRIKE OFF
. Union Laborers of . Other Organiza
tions, who Quit Work in Sympathy
With the Carmen, Have Been Order-
d to-Return to Work -Some Have
Difficulty in Getting Back Posi-
tions. ' -x ' : , ;" ;;
Pittsburg, Pa., Special. The grand
iurv have ordered indictments
against thirty-one present and past
conn oilmen, and made a demand upon
the directors of ' the city depositories
to investigate their own , boards and
ascertain the bribe-givers in connec
tion with the ordinance designating
their institutions'-as city depositories.
. A further result of the present
ments of the jury was the order of
City Comptroller Morrow for the
withdrawal of all city funds from the
Vianlro nnr? tViP TvmnHnnl "' nnllifi-
cation of the ordinance designating
them as custodians of city funds.
There is about $3,640,320 in Jhese.l
nt-c nAu' nnd thic wrvnlrl - lift in- I
banks now, and this would be in
creased manv millions during next
week by taxes that ; are bciig paid
According to the comptroller the with
drawal of funds will Ibe gradual, how
ever so that the institutions may not
he embarrassed, or any uidue alarm
caused depositors. '
The presentments give the, full de
tails, of the plot on the part of the
councilmen to obtain bribes from the
six banks, the means adopted for
paving the bribes are related, and
the. story of the transfer ' of $45,000
bv an unnamed man to former eoun
oilman Charles Stewart in the Hotel
New York, is told
It is recited that John F. Klein and
Joseph C. Wasson, by reason of their
ntession and statementa, making I
nos'ible the! exposure '"of -"tbe.'facts; are
entitled to great consideration and a
reduction of Klam s sentence 1a
lined. . . -
Friday's fincjing of the grand jury
nuts a new phase on the ease of Max
G. Leslie, who is now at Hot Spnng3
Leslie was acquitted on the charge
of perjury recently in connection with
the Columbia National Bank matter,
He had-denied to a grand jury that
lie had ever received, any money in
the deal, and convinced a jury when
placed on trial that on the day he
was alleged to have received the
money , he was in New York. The
present grand jury finds that he paid
$17,300 to Brand and paid Leslie
$2o,000 in June, 1908.
Sympathetic Strike Called Off.
PhiladelphiaSpecial. The Central
Labor Union at ' its meeting on Sun-
1 SIS f0 At
iay otnciaiiy caned on tne . sympa
thetic strike, which has been m
effect here for three weeks, union
workers in most of the trades still
afrecte1 by the general strike order
resumed work on Monday.
At the office of the Philadelphia
National League Baseball Club, it
-was stated that the iron' workers re
sumed operations on the grand stand
and bleachers, and it is hoped to have
the work completed before the open
ing of the season. J. ' , '
Five hundred horseshoers, who
have remained idle since the - strike
as declared, have also returned to
- Tvcrk! ' :. '
The committee of ten. which has
- had charge of the general strike, met
the executive committee of the strik-.
ing carmen and discussed plans, for
the continu; ition of the carmen 's
strike. It made a full report to the
Central Labor Union on' Sunday.
hen all the, sympathetic strikers
ere ordered back to work and . re
quired to render financial assistance
to the carmen. . -
Night Work by Children Prohibited.
Providence, Mass., Special. Should
f;v. Pothier approve the child labor
v'ii. which has passed the senate and
. e house, as it is expected he will
K le departm vt stores of Rhode
. Island- will have to readjust their
working forces. The hew law pro
vi'les particularly t that no child un
q r 16 years of age shall .work after
P- Nearly 1,000 . children in the
ate are affected. V
ever Patified the Amendment. '
Annapolis, Md., Special. In a cau-
,ns ()f the Democratic members of
lnp 'islature looking to the' dis-
'"'liisement of the negroes of this
t.atrj. it was decided to adopt, the
f 'uf(s Plan. This is based on the
ar:t that, flip Ruto. nf rn,.ion la
the
vvujiuuiiviii ii.IV ifJ.iL iiC-
tW lu voie. it provides
J!: as,the constitution of the States
L J the ballot to white men only.
I :oes mar be refused 'registration.
the v.:U. i ...i. Ti. ' !3-
attl"?1 AsuPD0Sed under "thisj plan ' to
sessional or DresidentiapT(..tnn
. --vui HCKiucB voiinir ui
Do Not Come Under Head of Unin
tentional Violators.
1 Washington, Special. War on
" blind .tigers 7 and on ."bootleggers"
has been declared by the administra
tion. Hereafter, persons engaging in
these forms of the liquor traffic are
to be. dealth" with much more dras
tically than heretofore!
This stand of the government, has
particular reference to violation of
the internal revenue laws in "dry"
country, where local enactments pro
hibit dealing in liquor. Loud com
plaints had come to President Taft
from various "dry" districts, notably
in the South and v est, that the
prohibition laws -were negatived
through the operations of the "blind
tigers " and the'bootlesrsrers" and.
in response to demands for re
medial , measures, he directed that
Uteps be taken to stop the practices
so far as lay within the federal
power.
New regulations were drawn un
der the supervision of Mr. Cabell,
the Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue, 'and approved by Secretary
MacVeagh Saturday. They set out
that as the peddling of liquors is not
contemplated by the internal rev
enue ilaws and no provision is made
for te issuanee of any stamp legal-
. U j n ' -
liquors, or "bootleggers," are not
to be regarded as coming within the
class of unintentional violators and
should be arrested and reported for
prosecution whenever found sellm
liqnor in such manner.
Heavy penalties of fine or impris
onment cr both are prescribed for vi
olations" of the law.
As a supplemental measure of as-'
sistance to the St&tes in the enforce
ment of their prohibition laws, a
method has been provided by which
thev mav obtain information gather
ed by the Federal government, of
internal revenue violations
rT.m - ira TZn-m-ho TrVirArm Rnfs-nnM-B
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- Washington- Speciah-In ; southern
Florida in company with Dr. E. E.
Lindercan. of the State Board of
Health laVoratorv at Tampa, and Dr.
John S. Holms.- Dr. C. W. Stiles, of
the publia health and marine hospital
service, in the public health reports,
says he visited 8 schools located .v in
three counties and saw 1,306 school
children, of whom he puts down
55.9 per cent as. hookworm suspects.
The number so classified, Dr. Stiles
says, may, as experience shows, be
taken as an ultra-conservative esti
mate of the number of these chil
dren who had hookworm infection.
At least fiverof the teachers in the
schools visited showed dear and pro
nounced effects of hookworm infec
tion. In a second paper Dr. Stiles speaks
of a visit to three cotton mills in
Rockingham, N. C. In those three
mills 224 people were employed and
the percentage of hookworm, suspects
was 64.8. being about what was an
ticipated in view of the fact that the
mills draw their labor chiefly from
the sand arpas.
. Tariff Concessions by Canada.
Washington, Special. Gc)ieral
satisfaction is expressed here at the
announcement made that an agree
ment, has practically been reached
between the officials represnting the
Canadian government and the Pres
ident and Secretary of State Knox,
respecting the .'adjustment 'of the
tariff of Canada and the United
States. No one in authority here is
willing to discuss the details, but
there is good ground for the belief
that material concessions have been
granted by Canada and that the
United States will receive in return
for its minimum the intermediate
rates given by Canada to France and
twelve other countries on a con
siderable number of, articles in which
exporters from the United States are
specially interested. ,
Charlotte Mint i3 Doomed. ,
Washington, Special. The Char
lotte mint is doomed, not today or to
morrow or thi3 year, but some time
in the, near future. The gold pur
chased there, it is said, costs the
ffovernment more than 4 y- per cent.
Representative Webb, has filed a pro
. test with "the Secretary of the Treas
ury fwrainst- the discontinuane r.; of
the mint' 'y---r'x- .-".'-.lf
Father Would Butcher Boys.
! Hartford, Conn., SpecialAn in
sane father was prevented from
butchering bis four little children on
the banks of - the Connecticut river
Saturday by the arrival of the police.
' When located back of some bushes.
his four boys were partly undressed
and were lined in a row, the maniac
father standing over them with the
uplifted axe. A, boy of 4. was to
bave been the first victim. The poor
child was standing beneath the shin
ing blade with a crucifix -, in a one
hand, calmly a waiting its' fate. The
other, under orders ; oi tne maaman,
I werft terrified spectators."
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News Notes Gathered From All
Parts of the Old North State.
The Woman's Baptist Convention.
The Baptist Woman's State Con
ventionheld very interesting ser
vices Friday morning at Oxford. De
votional exercises were opened by
Mrs. T. B. Henry, of Wadesboro
Mrs - Charles L. Haywood, of Dur-
ham, made a beautiful address.
The Sunbeam and royal ambassa-'
dor hour was presided over bv Miss I
Elizabeth Briggs, of Raleigh, ! band
superintendent. i
The Woman's Missionary Society
and junior mission work by Mrs. W.'
H. Hester, of Henderson. The; ideal
sunbeam mother by Mrs. W. J J Clif
ford, of Gastonia. Orsanizing a royal,
ambassador chapter, by Mrs. Charles I
by Mrs. Carey, of Newton, on life in
North China; by Mrs. George Green,
Glimpse of life in South China.
v The delegate and visitors visited
the Oxford Orphan Asylum Friday
afternoon.
Women's Home Mission Society.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the Women's Home Missions So
ciety of the North Carolina confer
ence, which has been holding sessions
in the First Methodist church, at
Elizabeth City , since Tuesday i even
ing, adjourned Friday at noon.
Raleigh was selected as the next
meeting place.
The following officers were elected:
President, Mrs. R. B. John, Raleigh;
first vice-president, Mrs; T. W; Cos
ten, Sunbury; second vice-president,
Mrs. John C. Angier, Durham, third
vice-president, Mrs. J. A. Spiers,
Selma; recording secretary, Mrs. B.
N. Mann, Durham; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. S. H. Scott. New
Bern; treasurer, Mrs. N. E. Edgerton,
Selma. , ;
' Suite Against the Southern.' ,
Two new suits -have been brought
against the Southern Railway in
Guilford Superior. Court, by Attorney
John A. Barringer. One for A. W.
Watterson for $20,000 and one for
G. S. Watterson for $12,000 on ac
count of personal injuries received by
them in the Reedy Fork wreck De
cember 15, 1909.
The suit brought against the South
ern by Justice and Broadhurst in
behalf of representatives of Pullman
Conductor Nolan, who ' was killed in
this wreck, is for $40,000. The rail
road has settled with a great many
claimants out of, court and I these
suits are the result of failure to
agree on the amount of damages.
Norfolk Brokers Lose Suit.
The Dabney Company, a firm
of
Norfolk doing business as brokers,
bad shipped from Chicago a load of
No. 2 corn which millers understand
to be the best. It seemed to have
left Chicago about February! 24,
1907, and turned up in Durham 'about!
March 26 of the next month. It was
spoiled and the Carolina roller mill
declined .to accept it.
A further fact was that the ; brok
ers had bargained to supply the local
mills with ten cars. The s price of
grain took an upward shoot and the
difference between the buying ; price
then and what the Carolina shortly
afterwards had to pay was 10 cents
on the bushel, according to the evi
dence. The mill contended that it
lost $1,000 in the deal. . ;.' f j
The brokers threw the draft into
the hands of the bank and failing
to collect, the Merchants and Marine
bank of Norfolk instinted the suit
against the roller mills company and
the Southern Railway, i
The jury returned a verdict in fa
vor of -the mills, but against the
Southern, throwing the costs of the
corn and the loss of the freight on
it.
Guilty of Selling Impure Meats.
Saturday the hearing of the first
case of! the, city of Raleigh, through
its health department, against Swift
& Co.; meat packers, - v. as concluded
before the police justice, the chbrge
being the selling of diseased ho;s. -Police
Justice Stronach fined Swift
& Co., $500 and Vaughan, their local
agent, $50 for selling diseased , meat
The company aud Vaughan appealed.
' Children Carefully Examined, f
It is said that the Weldon public
schools, of which Prof. R. .IL Latham
is the superintendent, lead the other
schools of the -State in the matter
of thoroughness in the medical ex
amination of school children and
general oversight of their . health.
Prof. Latham has sent to . the .De
partment of Public Instruction a
physician's blank to be filled out and,
sent to the parents, showing the eon-,
dition of the t children's teeth" ', and
estimating tlie cost of dental work
necessary. He -writes ' the depart
ment 'that" he is receiving hearty "co
operation in this new undertaking.
I terns of State Interest Gathered
; a-JTojdlnBriet.
The Daniel Boone Celebration.
Preparations for making the: Daniel
Bpone celebratiofii a notable event are
being made rapidly and everything
will 'be complete'! by the date for the
occasion, which is April 30. A pam
phlet containing .interesting historical
facts about Booiie is beiner prepared
and it . will be illustrated by cuts of
Boone and various places with which
he was connected.
Rowan peoplewill erect a granite
monument at the. restored Boone
cabin 12 miles! i from Lexington, in
the shape of a gigantic Indrarj aixow-
head. Rowan Daughters of the Rev
olution ; are considering a bronze
marker for the grounds. Lexington
Juniors will give , a flag. Judge
Pfritchard, Congressman Page, the'
Governor, perhaps, and others wil?
Farming School For Boys.
Rev. Dr. Oscar Haywood, pastor
f the Baptist Church of the Cove
nant of New iTork, is prepared to
offer several hundred acres of land on
tjhe lower border of the middle Pied
mont section ot iNortn Uaronna as
tne ground anc ioundation lor a
school of farming for boys. Details
pf the plan is, hot made known, but
it is supposed, I provided there is a
Sufficient financial support had, that
the scheme is i to transport thither
city born boys of the landless classes
of the Southern States to fit them
for a life as practical farmers.
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Tuberculosis Exhibition for Raleigh.
Albert Anderson, of Raleigh, an
jnounced Tridayl that he had com
municated with ; the Tuberculosis ' Ex
hibition management at Greensboro
and asked for a definite date for the
exhibition to be shown in Raleigh
According o the arrangements which
have beenmad3 with Director Rout
zahn fctGreensboro the active cam
paign will begin ! the first, week in
April with the exhibition ' to be
opened about 'the 18th of the month
and to continue open until about the
29th.
Decided in Favor of .Duke.
The jury which has been trying
the last of Ebrodie L. Duke-Alice
Webb litigations at Durham, ihvolv-'
ing $4,000 on' a note paid by the
Texas Nationial bank of Dallas,
agreed, after many hours of deliber
ation, answering all issues in favor
of the defendant Brodie L. Duke.
So far as is known this is the last
of the cases begun several years ago
against Duke, relating to his affairs
and those of Alice Webb.
Those Fraudulent N. C. Bonds.
Governor Kitchin received a . tele
graphic request from the Governor oi
Nevada .asking for all possible in
formation regarding the repudiated
North Carolina special tax bonds,
some of which: have been offered Ne
vada in order to induce that State to
sue North Carolina.
The Governor of Nevada says lie
declines to accept the bonds, but the
Legislature, is jtrying toforce him to
do so. Governor Kitchin and Attor
ney General Bickett sent him a mass
of information showing how f radu-
lent the bonds were.
Cut in Twain by Train.
While beating his way on a freight
train Charles Lockabill of Lexington,
.better known 'as Chad" fell under
the moving train and was cut in two!
across the stoihach, dying almost in
stantly. I!
Lockabill h is a wife and four small
children living in Lexington. He was
considered a good peacable fellow, ex
cept at times he would get on a
spreer He had 'just recovered from
one of these sprees. -His father lives
in West Virginia and it was thought
he was on his way to see him.
Violated "Scrip" Law.
L. B. Capehart, a negro physician
at Raleigh,' Wa? arrested Thursday on
the charge off giving a whiskey pre
scription to a person not his patient.
This is the first arrest of the kind
here." ;.- !'-r!':;-, - V 7 ;- -
The authorities are determined to
use all the machinery of" the law in'
the enforcement of the provisions of
the prohibition , act. "Alleged violators
"will be closely watcher. ,
A Corporation 'President ' ' Arrested.
John Ryan of 1 Wilmington, Del.,
claiming to be president of the Unit
ed States Guarantee company of that
city, .. who was arrested in Gaffney,
and7taken to OrlandoFla by Depu
ty Sheriff Gordon of that .city. ? Ryan
refused to go without requisition and
this delayed r his departure. ' He is
said to also be wanted at Douglas.
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DECLARED HE KNEW
SECRETS OF! COURT
Albany Lobbyist Learned of D
cisions in Advance.
JUDGE M'CALL'S $35,000 CHECK
Insurance Probe Witness Says Buck
ley Said Bill Would Fail AVithout
Money For the Boys The Bill
Did Not Pass. j
New York City. "The Story ot a
Lobbyist" might be a fitting caption
to the evidence brought out at the,
fire insurance inquiry as to the career
of William: H. j Buckley, an Albany
lawyer who for years was a legisla
tive agent at the State Capital for the
fire insurance comoanies. were the
revelations put in narrative form.
On the face of the documentary evi
dence produced Buckley ! was well-
nigh invincible at Albany, j If the let
ters, which were entered on the rec
ords, contained statements'of fact
and for the most part they were let
ters exchanged between Buckley and
the late George P. Sheldon, who was
president of the Phenix Fire Insur-
anee Company of Brooklyn Buck
ley's power with the Legislature was
well worth the money he admits he
received. . i 1 L
And Buckley's influence at Albany
went even! further, according to his
own words. He was able to learn in
advance of & decision of the Court of
Appeals, he said, and would keep
Sheldon informed as to what was
coming off in the Court.
: Miles M. Dawson, a consulting ac
tuary of New York City, said under
oath that Buckley had informed, him
that he could not get favorable action
on a bill in which het was interested;
unless he paid some money to "the;
boys." '".!"' i
When evidence was produced show-;
ing that -E. E. McCall, now. a State;
Supreme Court Justice, had written
Buckley's name above his own on a
check for.;S35, 000, which was one of;
the three ir.r made by the PheniS
Fire Insurance ompanyrof- Brook
lyn, through Sheldon to Buckley, the
latter became greatly, aroused. He
said that llr. McCall knew nothing at
all of the transaction, and had merely
acted in the matter at. his request. He
admitted that he tad not indorsed th
check and identified th
ehand writing
in which his name was written as that
of Justice McCall. Mr. Hotchkiss
said "he would be glad to have the
matter cleared up by, the Justice. j
Buckley told almost nothing, and
virtually all the information being
gained from the letters which Mr.
Hotchkiss produced. The first, dated
April 29, 1903, was from Sheldon to
Buckley, and read in part: !
"1 note that the Court of Appeals
has decided that the franchise tax law
is constitutional. I wish I could
have got onto this early enough, for jl
am satisfied that this is one of the
things that have been hanging over
the market, and if I could have
learned previously what the decision
was likely to be, there would haye
been money in this for all of us.
Whenever anything like this is pend
ing in Albany it will always pay you
to advise me, if you can, of the prob
able outcome."
Buckley replied the next day:
"I am sorry I did not know
it
would be of interest to you to have
information about the franchise de
cision. I told some of our friends
two weeeks ago what it would be, but
I was advised from very important
quarters that as long a3 the decision
would be that the law'-was constitu
tional it would not have much effect
on the market and I didn't think! it
advisable to say much about it. If it
had been the other way you would
have been advised, because I knew! of
your interests in big gas! In the
future I will keep .you advised." j -'
It was a dramatic ! moment when
Mr. Dawson appeared on the sc?ne
unexpectedly and was sworn in as a
witness. " j
Dawson, I who was consulting ac
tuary of the Armstrong committee.
which investigated the life insurance
companies, said that in 1905 he drew
up' a bill relating to the method; of
valuation of life insurance policies
which afterward was made a lawjon
the. recommendation of the Armstrong
committee, although it failed the first
year.- He went to Albany and had the
bill introduced I
"While in the lobby of the Sen
ate," he continued, "Buckley, whom I
had known for ' some. j years, came to
me and told me that the bill wouldn't
pass unless money was provided ffor
the boys.' ! He said that .'the boys'
thought I would get a liberal fee, !and
thought I ought to divide with them.
I told him I wasn't; there to bribes
any one, Euckley said he didn't like
to have me speak of it in that way.
The bill did not pass."
Mr. Hotchkiss turned to Mr. Buck
ley -. - '1 -' - ---'' ' i '-
"What have you to say to this?' "
; "I never said a word to Mr. Dawson
of money for 'the boys, " he said.,
Henry Evans, president of the Con
tinental Fire Insurance Company,' was
on the stand long enough to say that
he contributed $2500 to a fund Shel
don raised in 1903 to defeat leglsla
tion ad vers? to the ' companies.
Scnlptor 3Iac3Ionnies Married,
Frederick MacMonnies; an eminent
American sculptor, and Miss. Alice
Jones, a daughter of the late umtea
States Senator John P. Jones, of Ne
' vada,.. were - married In :, Lu cerne,
. Switzerland.,; . : I i- );"'
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Sixteen Dead and Missing From
Benzine Explosion. 4
Clerk Who Went to Fill Three Cigar.
Iaghters With Oil Caused the
Fatal Accident, - r
Chicago, ill. -Eleven persons lost
heir lives and five are, missing as a
esult of a fire that destroyed the
six-story building at No. 1306 Wa
bash avenue, occupied by L. Fish &
bo., furniture dealers. The structure
iwas equipped with only one fire es
cape, an antiquated ladder in an
alley,,and wires from which signs and
a glass- canopy covering the sidewalk
were hung .had to be cut before the
firemen could raise ladders. A Cor
oner's jury was impanelled for the
most sweeping official ; investigation
since the Irbquois Theatre disaster.
The records ! show the building had
not been inspected for ten years.
The identified dead are: Ethel An
derson, eighteen stenographer; Miner
W. Bell, advertising manager; Rose
Brucke, seventeen, stenographer;
Mrs. Hannah Burden, thirty, widow,
forewoman I folding f department;
Harry Darlington, forty, painter;
William Gren, twenty-four, clerk;
Ethel Lichtenstein, eighteen, stenog
rapher: Veronica McGrathT seventeen,
stenographer; : -Harry ;M. Mitchell,
member of the firm and its auditor;
Gertrude Quinn, twenty, folder; Lill
ian Sullivan j sixteen, f olden
- The missing . are: Bert Str-Clair.
twenty-eight, confidential clerk; Mary
Wargo, twenty, folder. ,
Three others, whose names were
not learned,) were reported to be miss
ing. , !
The fire started after Leo"" Stoeckel,
a clerk, weint to the fourth floor to
fill three pocket cigar ! lighters with
benzine at the request of Mr. Mitchell,
the member! of the firm who lost his
life.
"I
don't
know just v what hap- '
pened," Stoeckel said in police head- i
quarters, where he is being detained, l
"Each lighter .had a little button on ,
the side to ignit the benzine. I filled
them from! a. five gallon can of the.,,
fluid used" ftfr cleaning furniture. I n
may have touched a button. There;
was an explosion and; I was blown!
twenty feet."
' Forty employes escaped from the
building, which was a mass of flames
before those in the upper stories real
ized what jthe explosion meant. The
firm's offices were on the sixth floor,!
and the frantic men and girls trapped'
there peered down into a raging fur
nace. Mr. j Mitchell, who was a brother-in-law
of Solomon Fish, one of the
partners, died in attempting to rescue
the girls oh this floor, i - i
Three bodies were found together,
and their position showed they had
been praying when death came. i
Alexander Bush, a street car con
ductor, identified one of the bodies as
that of Miss Brucke, whom he was to;
have married shortly. He recognized
a number of trinkets and the engage
ment ring! he had given her.
BE TREPARED FOB 'WORST.
Friend Tells Senator Jotham P. A11J3
j at Albany.
Albany N. Y. Senator Jotham P.
Alldfl, of I Chenango, whose trial be
fore the Senate on a charge of having
demanded and accepted a thousand
dollar bribe to influence his official
action as majority leader in the 1901
session of the Assembly, came to a
close, was told by a close personal and
political friend to prepare for the
worst. . 1 ' - ' - -l - -
It would be difficult for any persom r
not actually in touch with the situa
tion at the Capitol to appreciate thev
bitterness that exists against Senator .
Conger ;among his fellow-members
of the upper house. ;
One' of the Senators who -voted for
Hinman for majority leader in the re
cent Senate caucus and who., there- ;
fore, cannot be regarded as an Alld3
partisan
said that regardless oi any
he would move to have
preferred against Senator
before a Senate committee
verdict
charges
Conger
the moment the Allds case had been
decided.' .... 1 '
"And should the Senate iau to ex
pel Conger, I shall oner my resigna
tion," said this Senator I ; cannot
sit in this Chamber with a man like
Conger." .; . :' '-' r - i
MOUNT ETNA IN ACTION.
Volumes of Smoke and. Lava Issue
" j.--;- - From Volcano. -! ': . ''; I
Catania, Sicily. From the top of
the old crater of Mount.Etna volumes
of white smoke were issuing, while
from the new' crateri that have
formed lava was gushing. From time
to time large incandescent masses -exploded
v with" loud detonations and
emissions of black- smoke, - From Ca-'
tanla and along' the entire railway
siirroundlnc Etna thousands; of per
sons were watching the;, volcano,, fol
lowing j with : telescopes the progress
of the eruption. i '.':;
It. has been ascertained that the
openings from which the lava was is-,
suing number fourteen. The heat from
the currents was so intense that it
was Impossible to approach, nearer
than 150 feet of them; The progress
down the mountain side ' averages
f. fteen feet every seven minutes. . .
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The Af sembly, at Trenton, N. J.,
passed the bill making any woman
found wearing a "closed season" bird
on her hat guilty of & criminal of
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