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New Orleans ConstantindJ noted Spanish tenor, now m Ha vana, wall bring' opera company here to give benefit for flood suf ferers. Expected to raise $75,000. WasHingtpn. Owing- to heat, members, of House got careless today. . Champ 'Glark stuffed handkerchief down "his neck, Joe Cannon!, unbuttoned? rest, and Sereno Payne and others daring- ly displayed their suspenders. Pontiac, 111. Win. Hamilton, 17, inmate of state reformatqry,. hanged himself. ' Paris', French newspapers horrified at scrap between Roose-velt-and Taf t for presidency. Re fer to them as "Wrestler Teddy' and "Wrestler Bill." ' f PROSECUTION OF'doFFEE TRUST TO PEEV BRAZIL. Washington, May 22. Brazil, through its ambassador here, has told the State Department that it will regard the prosecution of the Coffee Trust as an unfriendly act and will enter the most serious. protest against such prosecution. ' When a representative of thej United PreSS sought 'Senbr'de ama, the Brazilian 'ambassador,' todayj he was handed the follow-! ingjiote: j ", "The ambassadors now await-j irig the action of th State De-S partrtient before he takes any new steps." - ' , J De Gania has$ had three inter-j views with Secretary KhOx-ht re-j gard to the situation. At the. firs audience Knox told de Gama that' he had no official information of .the move-of die Department of. Justice against the Coffee" Trust. At one of the other audiences it is believed that de'Gama told Knox that his government looks upon the 950,000 bags of'coffee in storage in New York as he prop erty of the Brazilian government. District Attorney Wise of New York has asked that -the Circuit Federal Court there seize the cof feVe on the ground that it is held in -restraint of trade. ' ! Under de Gama's protest, to do so wbuld'be to seize theproperty of- Brazil, which the Brazilian government could regard only as anhmfriendly act. ' president Taft has ordered all thepapersJnHhe case in the hands of the Department of Justice to be seht toihe. State Department, but at the-State Department, today it waVsaid that tne""procefedings in the New York Federal Court would ,go on today without any; interruption frdln the State De partment ' vis. t The. 950,000 bags of coffee are being: held, in storage at New York in order to hold up prices 'The Brazilian government' is in with J. .Pierp. Morgan -and the members of the-"coffee poof on the deaL "Young man, I saw you pat your arm aroUrid hi$r daughters waist'last evening." "And--I suppose Jyou noticed how she struggled?" -CH-O- Buffalo ad says: "Wanted Chauffeur, married man with ex periehce." Imagine a mawfcl mail- without eaericncfr u KASSa