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BADGE R BRIEFS.
a tmuel Beil of Green Bay, was lo
cal'd in New York by his brother-in
law, Daniel Whitney. He is thought
to ije mentally deranged.
ii. Berman’s dry goods store at
Wausaukee was entered by burglars
uid the contents of the money drawer
*’cre carried away.
:’or trying to pass off a bad check
John Kohl man of Superior was
iven a two years' sentence in state
prison.
]{. Dickerson, said to be wanted on
i murder charge at Terra Haute, Ind.,
Hag been crested at Elton and will
.<• taken to Indiana.
rank Trezza, arrested at Roches
ter, Minn last August on a charge of
killing Archie Larrabee of Kenosha,
has been mulcted on a charge of mur
rjei
'J a confer nee of supervisors and
Members ot * be Da Crosse Bar associ
ation, it was decided to draft a bill
or the establishment of a Municipal
court of La Crosse.
Mayor Abrams of Green Bay has of
fered a reward of SIOO for the arrrst
UKi conviction of the assailant of a
ittie girl in the yards of the Green
jay and Western road.
one ship.. *nt of stuffed geese rep*
o.se-ntijjg Aenty-eight fowls which
vhk shipped out from Watertown av
-raged t.weu’ -five pounds to the bird,
"’’iii.s is con-idered a record making
n(
filer Herman of Neenah, had bis
Kit leg terribly burned when he acci
dentally tipped a bowl of molten
net al oji the member while preparing
c make > casting at the Sailer-Whit
more foundry.
Arraigned for stealing sundry wear
ing appare* at Stevens Point, John
Wyman ;> i Frank Pinker pleaded
ininkennc.-s and were sentenced to
;;e year i,nd six months, respectively,
n die ala'/* prison.
The fi'tl daughter of Edward
• ohnson a! Neenah, lies at her home
in a critical condition as a result of
irns received in an accident w r hen
leu dress tught fire while she was
playing near a stove.
Charier- j;t Gest of Menasha has
■ecrdvnl • ofice from Tower, Wyo.,
idling of the accidental death of his
brother, \ B Da Gest, a former w r ell
(mown Menasha resident, when a
c am of horses boiled.
After outing a hearty breakfast,
Mrs. Margaret Speich, widow of Ma
hias Hpe'ch, pioneer furniture manu
facturer and undertaker of Racine,
‘ell over on a sofa and died of heart
(rouble, igod 84 years.
lohn B. Wilcox of Wyalusing, in
plowing Uio held picked up the tooth
>J a mastodon which weighs nearly
] x pound- The channel through
vhich the nerve passed is large
■nough to admit a quarter inch rope.
Appleton druggists have combined
u the matter of distributing free anti
toxin to indigent persons, as pro
dd( ii by (ho state healifc department,
tud each :. . signed re-1
aHe ( he pphtheria
uuitive
Pleading guilty to the charge of
idministomig drugs and using instru
ments in Wation of the law, Dr. D.
!•' O Brie-ti of La Crosse was fined
:>l *oo and eosts by Judge James
A Neil, Di O'Brien was arrested in
l*:i, Crosse, bout a year ago as the re
’!l,f of an estigation following the
loitth of 4: ;,a Olson, a Viroqua serv
ant gill
1 locks of Labrador crossbeaks have
11 nved in Chippewa county and are
feeding or box elder seeds. The
birds hav visited the city only six
i imes in tin- last twenty-five years,
md each time they have been here it
has been i. cold Winter. To offset
cold wi ither predictions by the
Labrador mossbeaks Rural Mail Car
i i Toy brought to the city a live
i"bin wlu • ■ lie had caught along lus
i uie
DOMESTIC.
Student at the Grand Rapids,
is uh.. veterinary college, were taken
lb court to answer a charge of cruelty
0, animals., subjects of vivisection.
The Minnesota State Supreme court
itlirmed i, decision of the district
■> ai I. holding it unlawful for a prac
ii ing phys clan to practice dentistry.
Jammy' Jones, a woman SO years
old, died near Butte, Mont., after
masquoradiug many years as a man.
She sum! i. chewed tobacco and
drank.
Jhipleio were uoru yesterday to
Mr and M - Ambrose E. Calhoun.
C-dumbus, Ga. Mr, Calhoun is 82
: us old and is the father of twenty
tiv<* childret
’harles i alien and Jacob Barney of
Buffalo, N V.. were arresttd in that
ci'.v on a c i"ge of stealing thousands
ol dollar- worth of merchandise
ft am freight cars.
The SIO,OOO worth of jew eh ry lost
bv Mrs. F-Williams Buek of Rich
mond on i Pullman sleeper has been
-covered non the confession of a
i! pro n i 1 Tucker, who was ar
ia sled.
Two highwaymen in Rockford. 111.,
knocked down Albert Lawson, pay
mas er •>" -he Nelson Knitting com
pany os he was on his way to the
fec'orv to nay the men and robbed
him of §7OO
Detective Sergeant Philip Findley
of Chicago left Houston. Tex., accom
panied by W. Briggs Goodrich,
charged wit’, embezzlement of $5,000
by Mrs. Dora McDonald, widow of
Michael C. McDonald.
FOREIGN.
Having sent the budget to a com
mittee the reichstag adjourned until
January I- for the Christmas holi
days
Frank Rockefeller, brother of the
oil king, accidentally shot Emery
Bird. a Kansas Cty man. while both
were hunting quail on Rockefeller's
i ruck in Kansas. The birds rose be
twe> n the two men and bo'h fired at
the same 'ime. Birds injuries arc
u.e serous
Wilbur WfighL the American aero
-lui st of Dayton. O, made a series
f success: i flights at Lemans.
France. Four members of the Brit
ish Aero club went aloft separately
with Mr, Wright as passengers.
The newspapers of Rome published
President Rosevelt’s message to con
gress prominently, but made no com
ment on it-
As the result of deliberations of the
Russian cabinet, it is probable that
Gen. Liakoff, the Russian military
governor of Teheran, will be recalled.
The strike that broke out at the
Collahuasco coal mines in Chile, a
week ago came to an end and work
has been resumed. The movement
was put down by troops.
There was an anti-Austrian demon
stration at the performance of the
popular Viennese operatta “Fuerster
cristl.” One of the characters, an
Austrian officer, was hissed.
Count von Bernstoff, the newly ap
pointed ambassador of Germany to
the United States was received in au
dience by Emperor William and then
had luncheon with bis majesty.
Archbishop Glennon of St. Louis,
presented the pope with the gold
medal coined by the American gov
(rnment for the heads of the different
states that exhibited at the St. Louis
exposition.
The young Turks have bten success
ful in the Constantinople elections of
deputies to the new chamber. The
ten representatives are made up of
five Turks, two Armenians, two
Greel>3 and one Jew.
TRAGEDIES,
William Johnson of Tecumseh,
Okla., a negro who killed Mrs. Mary
Cuppy on Feb. 23. 1907, was hanged.
After shooting his wife, Frank Cas
sini of St. Louis fired four shots into
his own face and jaw*. The wounds of
bbth are thought to be fatal.
William Datura shot and killed
three colored men in Memphis, Tenn.,
and wounded four others in a pool
room there. No cause- was given for
the killing.
In a fire which destroyed their
home, Mrs. Frank Wright, wife of a
section foreman, and her 6 months old
child, were burned to death at Sa
lina, Kansas.
May Schunard, the Green Bay
woman who a few* days ago was hor
ribly burned when her dress came in
contact with a lamp, succumbed to
her injuries.
Miss Zoa Laschapelle of Wausau
kee. aged 22, attempted suicide by
swallowing a quantity of bichloride
of mercury. Despondency on account
of ill health is said to be the cause.
Within sight of home and native
land. Carl Herbster, a private in the
hospital corps, tnded his life on the
deck of the transport Thomas, near
the Golden Gate, by slashing his
throat with a razor.
Two members of the family of
G( orge Van Horn of Mendanhall,
Penn., are dead and three others are
ill as the result of ptomaine poison
ing. caused by sausage procured from
a local grocery store.
On big way from Mill Creek, Pa., to
his native home in Italy, where he in
tended to spend his last years in
comfort on his savings, Vito Pulero.
54 years old. was murdered in a
tenement house in New r York, where
he was stopping.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.
The Specialty Manufacturing com
pany of Kankakee, HI., manufacturers
of washing machines, is considering
moving its plant to Green Bay.
The Walworth County Telephone
company, having failed to pay inter
est on its bonds, has had its affairs
placed in (he hands of a receiver.
The Charles Pope Beet Sugar
works of Riverdale are making con
tracts with Racine county farmers
for planting sugar beets next spring
Col. Goethals, chairman of the
Panama canal commission, denies the
report that the Culebra cut is to be
widened to the extent of 14,000,000
cubic yards.
Two hundred tugboat men are on
strike in New York city and all tugs
are tied up because the crew of a
New York Central tug that refused to
work overtime was discharged.
The central passenger association
decided to grant the usual holiday
rate on the railroads of the associa
tion. Round trip tickets will be sold
Dec. 24 and 25, for a fare and a half.
The Chicago and Northwestern rail
road company has given another do
nation to the Y. M. C. A, at Antigo
in the sum of $5OO. The local asso
ciation is a combined city and rail
road Y. M. C. A.
The American Hide and Leather
company at Merrill has purchased
600 cords of hemlock bark in Taylor
county for its local tannery. The
haul will be made overland, a dis
tance of twenty miles.
The Pewaukee milling property
which includes the electric light
plant at that village, has been sold
for $20,000 by W. H. Palin to the
Frank C. Avery company, Milwaukee,
whom it is said, will establish a chew
ing gum plant.
Editor W. H. Burnham, who bought
the Waupaca Republ can a year ago.
has purchased the Post of J. L. Stur
tevant, now managing editor of the
Record-Herald. Wausau, and will con
solidate the two papers. The Repub
lican was started fifty-one years ago
annd the Post thirty-one years ago.
The Rentier Pickle works has been
organized at La Crosse, and will have
a complete plant in operation at
Stoddard by next July. Contracts
with farmers for raising cucumbers
have already been closed.
Contractors on the Milwaukee &
St. Paul tunnel, through the Coeur
d’Alene mountains in Montana set a
iuw world record in tunneling for a
mouth in November, having bored
feet. The tunnel will be 5.750
feet.
Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the di
rectorate of the United States Steel
cor Deration, tendered a dinner in
New York to the heads of all of the
corporation’s subsidiary companies,
representing a capital of over $1,500,-
OOU.OOO.
The Jung Shoe company will install
a shoe factory in anew build ng to
be erected as an addition to its pres
ent large warehouses at Slu boygau.
IOWA COUNTY DEMOCRAT, MINERAL POINT. WIS., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 24, 190S.
When completed the factory will
have a capacity of 500 pairs of shoes
daily.
The Dells Paper and Pulp company
will he the heaviest taxpayer in Eau
Claire this year, the total sum of the
company’s taxes amounting to nearly
$14,000. O. H. Ingram is the heaviest
individual taxpayer with a sum ap
proximating $7,000.
After a jury was out all night Mrs.
Delia Hedberg was awarded, damages
of $6,750 in circuit court at Green
Bay. She sued the Milwaukee road
to recover SIO,OOO on the death of
her husband, who was crushed to
death by logs rolling on him off a
freight car.
Forty thousand dollars is de
manded of the Da Crosse Gas and
Electric company by Henry Mar
quardt for injuries alleged to have
been sustained at the gas works on
May 20, 1906. He claims that an ex
plosion at the gas plant was caused
by defective equipment allowing gas
to escape in the purifying room, and
ignited by defective electric wiring.
PURELY PERSONAL.
Dr. Albert Ross Hill was formally
inaugurated as president of fhe Uni
versity of Missouri at Columbia.
State Senator J. H. Crowley of
Colorado, is at Los Angeles, Cal.,
seeking his 18-year-old son, who is
lost. When last heard of the boy
was af 'Needles, Cal.
William J. Perry, a cobbler, in (a
15 by 4 foot shop at Los Angeles, Cab,
has been raised to wealth by a gift of
SIOO,OOO, with $300,000 more in pros
pect. made to his wife by her
brother, a capitalist in St. Louis.
United States Senator H. C.
borough of North Dakota, who has
been ill in Minneapolis for a number
of days had a decided turn for the
worse and he was removed to Asbury
hospital.
Philippe Bunau-Varilla, former
Panama minister to the United
States, interviewed in Paris, asserted
the Gatum dam would not serve the
purpose and that the isthmian canal
would cost twice the estimated
amount.
OBITUARY.
David M'Queen, a pioneer of Dodge
county, died at his home in Beaver
Dam very suddenly.
Capt. Maynard H. Murch, 82
old, retired shipbuilder, died in
Cleveland, Ohio. He built some of
the largest freighters sailing on the
great lakes.
Mrs. Wilhelmia Abel, mother of
Capt. William Abel. w r ho was in com
mand of Cos. H. Second regiment, W.
N. G„ in the Spanish war, died at
her home in Manitowoc, aged 81
years.
Samuel S. Miles, sue of the oldest
newspaper men in Boston and one of
the reporters of the famous trial of
Dr. J. W. Webster for the murder in
1849 of Dr. George Parkman, died
after a brief illness. He was eighty
four years old.
John P. Davies, president of the
Racine Business Men’s association,
died from brain clot following a ten
days' illness with inflammatory rheu
matism. An unusual incident in fhe
passing away of Mr. Davies was that
the association held a meeting the
day before be died and the club was
dissolved, the society affiliating with
the Racine club.*
Patrick Duffy, a pioneer of Genesee.
Waukesha county, died at the home
of his sou, John Duffy, in Milwaukee,
aged 87 years. He was born in
county Monahan, Ireland. When 10
years old, with his parents, he emi
grated to Providence, R. 1., and in
1840 he settle-d *in Waukesha county.
Harry Deakin, who twenty years
ago managed the old Milwaukee
Academy of Music, ami who during
recent years has been engaged in the
fine arts business in Chicago, died at
his home in that city.
$5,000,000 GOES
ACROSS IRE SEA
New York, Dec. 19. —More than
$5,000,000 in the form of money or
ders was sent to foreign countries
through the port of New York be
tween Dee. 2 and Dec. 16, when the
last of the Christmas money remit
tance ships sailed. These figures
were g'von in a statement made pub
lic by Postmaster Morgan yesterday
the period covered being that of the
usual holiday outflow of morey from
the foreign population hi America to
friends and relatives in Europe. The
$5,040,729 was sent in 432,875 inter
national money orders, more than
twice as many going to Great Britain
and Ireland as to any other country,
while Italy. Sweden and Germany
came next.
CHICAGO MARKETS.
Livestock.
Cattle—Receipts estimated at 4t*o;
market steady; beeves, 3.40@7.60;
Texans. 3.40@4.25; westerns, 3.40@
5.50; stockers and feeders 2.60@4.70;
cows and he'fers, 1.50@4.90; calves
6.00(0" 5.50.
Hogs—Receipts estimated at II.(WTO;
market a shade higher; light, 4.75@
5.50; mixed. 5.15105.75: heavy. 5.20@
5.80; rough. 5.20@0.35: good to choice
heavy 5.35 @5.80: pigs, 3.50@4.60:
bulk of sales. 5-30@5.65.
Sheep—Receipts, estimated at 2,000;
market steady; native 2 50@4.70:
western. 2.30@ : 4.73; yearlings 4.25@
5.75: lambs, native 4 25@7.25; west
ern. 4.50@7.]0.
P-oduce.
Poultry—Live, steady; turkeys. 14c;
ch ! rkens, 9c; springs 11c.
Potatoes —F’rra 62@77c.
Veal —Firm: 50 to 60-pound weights
G'ffOL.c; 60 to 85-pound weights. 7@
Sc: 85 to 110 pound weights. B@9c.
Dairy.
Butter —Stead'” ereamer'es 22Ti
'‘tv- dairie-. 21 V.iff2sc.
” ?<= —Steadv firsts 2814c
c^ppcp—Rtrrpti; daisies 14V.(jyi5c:
5 i tui-n/.o: Towns Americas
Mv'c.
STANDARD Oil
FIGHTS EVERY INCH
FILES BRIEF ANTAGONIZING PE
TITION OF GOVERNMENT FOR
WRIT OF CERTIORARI.
DECLARES RULE OF DILIGENCE
REQUIRED WOULD DIMINISH
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
Washington. Dec. 20. —The Standard
Oil company’s briefs in the proceed
Ings of the United States against that
■wnpany on a charge of accepting re
ntes from the Chicago & Alton rail
way company in which the United
Aates district court for the northern
district of Illinois imposed a fine oi
$29,240,000 was yesterday filed in the
supreme court of the United States.
The case comes before the court on
a petition by the government for a
writ of certiorari bringing it up for a
review of the decision of the United
States circuit court of appeals for the
seventh circuit, by which court the
district court s decision was reversed.
The brief antagonizes the petition and
ibis opposition is based principally ou
tbe ground that the law does not “an
thorize a review by the supreme court
on an application of the lovernmenl
of the judgment of the circuit court of
appeals in a criminal case by which a
writ of error of the defendant is sus
tained and disposed of by reversing
the judgment and sentence of the
trial court.” It is contended that in
Ia case of this character the writ ot
certiorari is equivalent to a writ of
error and that the “policy of the law
is against a review of judgment in fa
vor of the accused in a criminal case
at the instance of the government.”
Much of the brief is technical in
character, but there are occasional
passages which depart from that
characterization. It is pointed out
that while six cents was the lawful
rate on petroleum for all shipments
from Chicago to East St. Louis ex
cept from stations at East Chicago.
Hammond. Indiana Harbor and Whit
ing. or other suburban switching
points in Indiana, from these points
the government contends that the rail
road was required to charge 18 cents
per hundred, or three times the Chi
cago rate, r<nd that, therefore, the
Standard company which shipped
from the suburb of Whiting at the Chi
cago rate was properly mulcted by
the district court in the sum of $29 -
000 000 “for not shipping at and pay
ing a prohibitive rate of three times
as much as the Chicago rate.” 'The
contention is made that due effort
was made on behalf of the Standard
company to discover the legal rate,
and it is urged that the company
should.not be held respons’ble for its
failure in that respect.
Continuing, the brief says:
“Counsel as well as the trial court
have overlooked the obvious consider
ation that the controlling purpose oi
the acts to regulate commerce is ‘to
promote and facilitate commerce ana
not to hamper or destroy it.' counsel
argue the construction of the ETlcms
amendment as if congress, in passing
it. regarded the shipment of commod
ities in interstate commerce as fraught
with evil or danger to the safety or
morals of society and that it was.
therefore, to be burdened with penal
instructions, and that shippers are to
be held to a rule of diligence in
knowing that rates at which they ship
are current and lawfully tiled and pub
lished rates, such as has been in ex
treme cases applied to d'ram shop
keepers selling liquors tu minors or
druggists selling poisons. If shippers
were required to carry on business
under such a rule as to diligence or
the ‘equivalent of knowledge’ at tne
risk of a criminal prosecution and se
vere penalties, interstate commerce
would be greatly restrained and di
minished, if not destroyed.”
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
Washington. D. C., Dec. 15. —Pres ; -
dent Roosevelt sent to the senate a
statement concerning the purchase of
the Panama canal property by the
United States, denouncing in strong
language charges that there was any
thing wrong in the acquisition by the
United States of the canal property.
Mr. Foraker endeavored to have the
senate adopt a resolution calling on
tne secretary of war for detailed in
formation concerning the men em
ployed. and instructions given, and
expenses incurred in the investiga
tion by detectives. Senator Warren
objected to immediate consideration.
The postal savings bank bill was the
subject of speeches by Senator Carter
and Depew, both of whom advocated
the measure. On motion of Senator
Fulton the omnibus claims bill will be
taken up by the senate January 6 for
consideration.
Washington. Dec. 15. —The hopes
of the so-called insurgents in the
house, for the revision of the rules
of that body, were dissipated when
Congressman Gardner of Massachu
setts. failed to obta ; n the adoption of
an amended resolution calling for the
appointment of a committee to con
sider the subject and report changes
deemed necessary.
Washington. Dec. 16. —The senate
decided definitely to enter upon an in
vestigation relative to that portion of
the annual message of the president
which criticises the action of congres
in prohibiting the detail of secret serv
ice men to duty in other departments.
The resolution was presented by Sen
ator A drich and had no sooner found
its way to the ecretary’s desk than
Senator Culberson, caucus leader of
the democrats, sent up a substitute
somewhat more specific. Both meas-
ures were referred to the committee
ou contingent expen es, and almost
immediately afterwards Senator Kean
from that committee reported back
the Aldrich resolution with a recom
mendation that it pass. Mr. Culber
son made prompt objection but it was
stated that the objection would be
withdrawn if a portion of the Culber
son substitute directing the committee
on appropriations to advise the sen
ate specifically as to the course of act
ion it should take with reference to
that portion of the messages which
has been considered objectionable
could be Incorporated in it. This was
done in conference, and after an ani
mated discussion the resolution was
adopted. During the discussion Sen
ator Bailey objected to the resolu
tion because it did not direct the com-
mittee to inquire into the “very gross
and wanton” words of the the presi
dent’s message. “So far as lam con
cerned.” he said, “no action should be
taken on that resolution until that
point is covered. Either congress is the
most infamous body that ever as
sembled in any country of the world
or it will take some notice of this
most wanton and gross insult ever
given any body in the world.” Sen
tor Hale declared that the resolution
was sufficiently strongly worded to
permit the kind of a report Mr. Bailey
desired, but Senator Tillman did not
seem satisfied, and said that accord
ing to the president's message con
gress is composed of a lot of “ra-cals
and scoundrels who belong in the pen
itentiary.” Senator McLaurin of
Mississippi favored a dignified re
sentment of the language of the presi
dent. and Senator Bacon declared that
in his view the message was “the
most deliberate and carefully designed
and carefully worded insult ever sent
to any parliamentary body in this or
any other country.” The resolution
then passed.
The house devoted its entire time
to a further consideration of the bill
to revise the penal laws of the United
States. The Garrett amendment, which
prohibited the sending through the
mails of information bearing on trans
actions in future was defeated. With
out opposition an amendment by Con
gressman Houston of Tennessee was
adopted making it an offense to de
posit in or ship through the mails in
toxicating liquors. There was still
pending when the bill was laid aside
an amendment by Representative
Humphreys of Mississippi, providing
for the identification of intoxicating
liquors transported by interstate car
riers. This proposition evolved an ex
tended debate. Bills were passed
authorizing the construction of a
bridge across the Mississippi at St.
Paul. Minn., and extending for three
years the time for the construction
of the bridge across the Mississippi at
St. Louis.
Washington, Dec. 18. —Congressman
Peters of Massachusetts introduced a
bill establishing the $lO gold piece
as the standard gold coin of the
United States and providing that it
shall consist of 1G 95-100 grains of
standard.gold. The bill directs that the
several gold coins authorized by ex
isting law shall no longer be issued
from any mint of the United States,
but that those in existence shall con
tinue current at the reduced rate of
S9.BG for every $lO. The gold dollar of
one-tenth the value of the $lO piece is
made the standard unit of value and
in exchange with Great Britain it is
given a value of 50 pence sterling,
lor the same purpo e the value of the
Pound sterling is fixed at SI.BO. The
bid also provides for a postal ex
change under which American stamps
may be used in England ou mail for
(he United States and English stamps
in this country on mail intended for
England, at the rate of 2 cents Amer
can money for one English penn}'.
The purpose of the bill is to facilitate
exchange between the two countries
and render it practicable to maintain
a more satisfactory postal arrange
ment.
A request for an urgent deficiency
appropriation of $5,458,000 to carry on
the work of the Isthmian canal at
the present, rate during the balance of
the fiscal year and for new projects,
was received by the house from the
secretary of war. Last year a defi
ciency appropriation of $11,950,000
was made. The principal share of
the desired appropriation is for the
Atlantic division, where are located
the Gatum locks and dam. For this
division an appropriation of $3,451,-
000 is requested. Chairman Goethals
of the commission explained that the
cunent appropriation was based on a
mistaken idea that congress had ap
propriated for a rock crushing plant
at Porto Bello, an erecting plant for
the Gatum locks and dams and ves
sels to transport crushed rocks. For
these purposes $2,500,000 is now
asked.
It has been found. Chairman Goeth
als reports, that there is not sufficient
data on the hydraulics of Gatum lake
and its tributaries to determine
whether there are any low saddles
that would affect the seepage of the
lake. To make an additional survey
$550,000 is asked. In the central divi
sion, including Culebra out. it is said
the excavation has been 50 per cent
greater than was estimated and for
this purpose a deficiency appropria
tion of $1,150,000 is requested. An
additional plant at Miaraflores locks
is also requested. Of the total appro
priation requested $2 458.000 is for la
bor and $2,400,000 for materials.
Because of a general exodus of
members for their homes for the
Christmas holidays, the attendance in
the house was far short, of a quorum
Nevertheless a good deal of business
was trarfsaeted. This consisted
mostly of the passage of war claim
bills.
Washington, Dec. 19. —A message
from the president relating to the
granting of franchise for water and
gas companies and for the building of
a bridge and improvement of a har
bor in Porto Kico, another a ked
an appropriation of $250,000, fur the
acceptance of the invitation of the
Au I 'tria-Hungary government to par
ticipate in an exposition and still an-
other related to fixing the boundary
line between Colorado and New Mex
ico.
Explaining this bill increasing the
salaries of the president and vice
president respectively. Senator Jona
than Bourne, Jr., of Oregon said that, j
aside from all sentiment in the mat
ter. he is of opinion that the man
who is big enough to be president of
the United States, the biggest corpor
ation in the world, is certainly as big
as a railroad president or the manager
of a manufacturing combination, and
should be paid, as a business proposi
tion. what the demands of the position
indicate as a fair compensation.”
Senator Bourne called attention also
to the fact that the president ot
France receives $114,000 as a personal
salary and a like amount for executive
expenses. He said the comparison does
our country no credit when It is re
membered that our national wealth is
estimated at $127,000,000,000: while
that of France is estimated at only
$54,000,000,000.
The senate adjourned until January
4; also the house.
SIXTY THOUSAND
IDLE IN BERLIN
PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYED WOR
RYING GERMAN STATE
AUTHORITIES.
Berlin, Germany, Dec. 21. —Both the
city officials of Berlin and the Prus
sian state authorities are trying to
find ways and means of dealing with
the problem of the unemployed, which
is assuming alarming proportions.
More than GO,OOO men and women are
out of work in Berlin according to a
count just completed. Six weeks ago
the number of unemployed was esti
mated at 40.000. and the growth of the
army of involuntary idlers promises
to continue, There is apparently no
prospect of an early improvement in
the situation which is attributable
primarily to the unfavorable business
conditions and the general suspension
of work in the building trades.
Mayor Kirschner of Berlin, Minister
of Commerce Belbrueck and Minister
of Railways Breitenbach who Is the
largest employer of labor in Prussia,
are trying to devise plans for the amel
ioration of the distress, which must
become more acute as the winter ad
vances. So far as is practicable work
on public buildings and other improve
ments already begun will be carried
on with a full force of men and efforts
will be made to bring about actual
work on all projects for which plans
have been made or funds appropriated.
Unfortunately it Is doubtful whether
these measures will do much to re
lieve the situation, as the state author
ities say they have already gone about
as far as they can in this direction.
Officials of the municipal lodging
halls, which are crowded nightly, say
many of the unemployed are praying
for heavy snowstorms, which will
force the city to give them at least
temporary work.
Similar conditions prevail in other
cities of Germany. In Stettin, where
(he unemployed engaged in a big
street demonstration last night, it
is said that fully 30 per cent, of (he
wharf workmen are idle.
ROOT MM SUIT
STATE PORTFOLIO
Washington, Dec. 20. —At the white
house last evening Secretary Loeb,
when asked regarding the report that
Secretary Root was soon to resign,
said that Mr. Root probably would re
sign if he should be elected senator
by the New York legislature, which
meets January IG. In the event of Mr.
Root’s resignation before the expira
tion of his term, Mr. Loeb said the
post of secretary of state woul'd pro
bably be offered to Assistant Secre
tary Bacon to fill out the remainder
of the term.
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS WIN SUIT
Missouri Judge Rules They Have a
Right to Heat.
Warrensburg, Mo.. Dec. 20. —There
is no law in Missouri prohibiting the
practice of healing by members of the
Christian Science church, according to
a decision handed down here yesterday
by Judge Berry Thurmond, in the cir
cuit court. The case was brought to
test the law, and Mrs. Lena A. Jac
card and Theresa M. Heywood, prom
inent Christian Science practitioners
of Kansas City, were the defendants.
They were charged with violating
the laws that make ft an offense to
practice medicine or surgery, or treat
the sick for pay without a license.
They treated Mrs. Surelda Wyrick
of Knobnoster through the medium of
Christian Science, for which they re
ceived the sum of The scientists
attorney attacked the constitutional.ty
of the law.
Shot by Little Brother
Grand Rapids, Wls., Dec. 20.
Charles Waterman, son of Frank
Waterman of Chili, west of this city,
was dangerously wounded by the ac
cidental discharge of a shotgun. The
young man laid the gun upon the
table to lace his shoes. His little
brother raised the hammer and dis
charged the gun and the contents
struck Charles in the back, some of
the shot passing through the body.
His recovery is doubtful
Touches Live Wire
Beloit, Wis , Dec. 20. —Touching a
live wire on top of a pole with a steel
*ool, Bert Smith, a lineman, whose
home is at I>ancaster, Wis., was
thrown across the wire where he
hung until rescued by fellow work
tipti was taken down uncon
scious but recovered soon after.
CABINET MAKING
AT
PRESIDENT-ELECT DECLARES
KNOX IS ONLY ONE SC FAR
DECIDED UPON.
OTHER RUMORS ARE SUCH,
PURELY, WITHOUT BASIS
OF FACT.
Augusta. Ga.. Dec. 20. —Directed as
an answer to numerous newspaper
cabinet suggestions which have been
made recently in many quarters.
President-elect Taft said last night
that he had made no progres what
ever in making up his cabinet aside
from the Knox announcement. Ad
mitting that nearly all the names
suggested in the papers had also been
suggested to him, and that in nearly
al instances be thought well of the
men, but he insisted that he had
reached no determination, and that
there was not pending any offer of
any position to anyone. Since his
arrival here Mr. Taft said he had
been free from ‘active negotiation”
icgarding his cabinet, aside from the
telegram he receivt and Friday from
Senator Knox. In this connection
he added that he had made no en
gagements for a conference on that
or other subjects. Mr. Taft said that
he has not as yet written to Mr.
Knox of his desire to see him here,
and that he had not heard from she
senator except through the acceptance
telegram Mr. Taft said lu should
consult his secretary of state thor
oughly before going further into the
cabinet making business.
STEALS $20,000
10 BET ON RACES
Oakland, Dec. 20. —Adrien© Leßouf,
for three years cashier of Halo Bros,
drygoods store, has been arrested on
a charge of embezzlement. He con
fessed that he had used about $20,000
of the firm’s money during the last
four months in gambling chiefly in
betting on the races in poolrooms.
According to the story told by Le-
Bouf, he began hi, peculations from
the firm in September. He took small
sums at first, but soon grow bolder
until his thefts ran as high as $5,000
in on© week, lie declared that all of
this money was 10-. t on the races, and
(hat the large amount of his defalca
tion was due to his efforts to recuper
ate losses. The method by which Le-
Bouf was able to steal the money w r as
that of padding cash accounts and
raising checks. According to the police
no suspicion attached to Leßouf tint 11
a few days ago, when a check, raised
from S2IG to $2,11G, started an inquiry
on the part of his employers. A de
tective was immediately put on the
case, and it took him but a few days
to reach the. conclusion that the crime
had been committed by tin* cashier.
Leßouf was trailed, his accounts were
investigated, he was questioned and
at last was placed under arrest.
He is 25 years old and has a wife
and child.
DOUBLE ELOPEMENT.
Two Wives Take Their Five Children
and Decamp.
Dos Moines Dec. 1G. —After evading
for a week, the frantic search of
heartbroken hu-bands, Mrs. Isabella
Corey and Mrs. Nora Sims, who
eloped from their homes at Grand
Junction with Eugene Schultz and
Frank Piles, respectively, were lo
cated by the police in a fwo-roorn
apartment here.
Each woman had taken her children
with her. There were five of them i
both families. It was the most remark
able elopement in the history of lowa.
Cory and Sims had traced their faith
less wives to Deg Moines. Rut search
as they would, no trace conld be
found here until the police received a
tip that four grown folks and five
children, all strangers, were quartered
in the apartment in which they were
found when the police broke in the
door.
Both husbands promised to forgive,
but the wives refused to return to
them. Habeas corpus proceedings for
the children have been started.
ADJOURNS FOR HOLIDAYS.
After Brief Session Both Houses Quit
for Holidays.
Washington, Dec. 20.—A brief ses
sion of the senate yesterday was de
voted to routine business In accord
ance with the agreement reached be
fore adjournment last Thursday. Sev
eral messages on minor legislation
were received from the president and
bills and other measures were Intro
duced. After passing a bill granting
to the Southern Pacific the right of
way across the Fort Mason military
reservation in California, the hou e ad
journed for the holidays. The house
adjourned at shortly after noon, both
adjournments being to January 4,
1909.
DEAD IN STRAW STACK,
Aged Farmer Found by Searchers —
Murder Suspected.
Topeka. J\as.. Dec. 29.—Dennis Cas
ey. aged GO was found dead in a straw
stack on his farm, six miles east of
Powhattan, by a searching party or
Ineighbors yesterday morning. Casey
jhad evdently been murdered and me
body concealed. The coroner’s jury
names David Woods in connect on
with the affair. Casey had been miss
ing two weeks. Woods disappeared
about the same time.