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Springfield, III., Feb. 11.—William
J. Calhoun, United States Minister to
China, appeared before the Supreme
court o f Illinois today, in appeal to
have that body overrule a decision bear
ing upon the ten hour day for women
Portland, Feb. 14.—One juror, and
Judge Tuthill last July held the law
one alone, has saved Binger Hermann
limiting the working day to ten hours
from conviction on the charge of con
unconstitutional on the ground that it
spiracy to defraud his country out of
infringes on women’s right to contract
its public lands.
Claims Deadly Cyanogen in C om et's
Cess Important but Not Lea* Infor»
That one juror withstood the pleas Clings to Wreckage Until Picked Up for the hire of her labor.
Minister
Calhoun
was
one
of
the
Is T oo Far Rarefied to Produce
of his fellow talesmen from Friday
by Fishermen—Engine Broke
eating Happening« from Pointa
large number o f Chicago men and wo
Any Effect on Earth.
forenoon at 11 o ’clock until this morn
Down During Storm.
Outside the State.
men opposing the decision who ap
ing at 9. His position proved beyond
peared
before
the
Supreme
court.
The
the power o f argument to shake, and
minister to China told the court that
tho twelve men came before Judge
Chicago, 111., Feb. 10.— Abomination
A British steamer went ashore in
Palma, Island of Majorca, Feb. 12.— he would confine his addess to a single
Wolverton this morning with the re
the Straits o f Magellan, and 51 persons
phase
o
f
the
case—
its
humanitarian
or
of
desolation will not take place even
Driven
helplessly
from
her
course
in
port that they could not reach » ver
were lost.
if the tail o f Halley’s comet does hit
dict. Judge Wolverton discharged the one of the wildest storms that has commonsense side.
“ I am not a radical or a socialist, or
Ex-Secretary o f the Treasury Shaw jury from further duty, and the first swept the Mediterranean sea in 40
the earth.
Furthermore, there’ s not
the
French trans-Atlantic an anarchist,” he said, ‘ ‘ a id I don’ t
says if a central bank were estab trial of Binger Hermann was closed, years,
enough poison in the Bidereal way
even
belong
to
the
so-called
‘
uplift
steamer
General
Chanzy
crashed
at
lished the Standard Oil company would after five weeks of testimony and ar
full speed, in the dead of night, on the movement,’ of which we have heard so farer’s appendage to topple a beetle.
control it.
gument.
But I do take suffi
treacherous reefs near the Island of much recently.
When
further
instruction
was
asked
That is the cheerful announcement
Mrs. Sage denies report o f promis
Minorca, and all except one of the 15 cient notice of some of the abuses made today by Professor Edwin B.
of
the
judge
Saturday,
fear
began
to
cuous charity gifts in the South, but
which exist in this highly and artificial Frost, director of Yerkes observatory
persons on board perished.
admits giving away large sums during be felt o f a hung jury. The hours that
The sole survivor is an Algerian cus ly developed civilization of ours, and at William Bay, Wi3.
passed without a verdict Sunday
The Wiscon
her recent trip.
brought conviction that the jury would toms official, Marcel Rode!, who was which call aloud for correction.
sin astronomer laughed heartily upon
rescued
by
a
fisherman
and
who
lies
to
In
the
doctrine
of
the
freedom
of
The naval tug Nina, with a crew of be unable to agree.
reading the dire piediction o f Profes
32 men, is missing on the Atlantic
This morning the conclusion was night in the hospital at Ciudadela, rav contract there is more o f fiction than sor Edwin Booth, of the chemistry de
coast, and many naval vessels are confirmed by the appearance of the ing, as a result of tne tortures through morality. When men and women are partment of the University o f Cali
searching for her.
jury in the courtroom, when its fore which he passed and unable to give an dependent upon their daily wages; fornia. Professor Booth insists that
when they arb face to face with pov if Halley’s con et teems with cyanogen
A Minnesota telegraph operator, man announced thBt an agreement was account of the disaster.
In the ship’s company there were 87 erty all the tim e; when the loss of a gas we are all likely to be exterminat
with one foot cut off and both legs impossible, and asked that the 12 men
broken, crawled half a mile and pre be discharged from further attendance passengers, o f whom 30 were first day’ s work and a day’s wage means not ed as so many bugs.
cabin. The crew numbered 70.
It is enough money to pay rent, or not
upon the court.
“ Why,” chuckled Professor Frost,
vented a collision.
Judge Wolverton was loth to have thought that there were no Americans enough to buy food, it is not fair, it is “ the fact ¡ b there isn’t the slightest
The French Antarctic expedition the case terminated without a verdict. on board.
not common sense, to say that they en danger. In the first place, the comet’s
under Charcot reached 70 degreeb But the positive assurance o f the men
The ship was in command of Captain joy any freedom of contract for the tail may not be long enough to reach
south latitude aond mapped many hun that agreement could not be reached, Cayol, one of the most careful officers sale o f their labor.
the earth. In the second place, the
dred miles of new country.
‘ ‘ Many women in their struggles for density of this tail is so slight as to be
left no alternative.
In view of the o f the line. In his long experience he
had
never
met
with
an
accident.
He
long
time
sp^nt
in
deliberation,
and
food
and
shelter,
yes,
and
for
life
Officials of the French trans-Atlantic
almost nothing.
steamship company have no tidingB oi the positive assertion o f the jurors that had intended to retire from the service itself, are willing — even eager — to
“ No, we are n jt going to be snuffed
soon.
work long hours every day in the week out like bugs in the entomologist’s
anyone being saved from the lost they could not agree, the judge found
Passengers of the Chanzy were most and every week in the year, year in bottle (then H a l e j’s comet sweeps its
steamer General Chanzy except the one it useless to confine the men longer,
ly officers and officials returning to and year out, until their bodies break
and discharged them from the case.
passenger picked up by fishermen.
tail over the earth. There is cyanogen
Disagreement had been feared, but their posts in Algeria, accompanied by under the strain. But the wishes of
In a speech in Dublin, Redmond de few who had been speculating on the their wives and children; a few sol such women should not be allowed to gas in the comet’s tail, and that cyano
manded that the house o f lords veto issue had thought the margin would be diers, some Italians and Turks and one militate against the welfare of woman gen gas, when mixed with our terres
trial atmosph.-re in sufficient quanti
the English budget, and his attitude so narrow as one. Mr. Heney and his I priest.
kind and mankind in general. When ties, is as fatal as lightning, but there
may unite the Irish and Radicals under assistants were absolutely confident "of
The only Anglo-Saxon names on the a woman, be she maid or mother, has
one banner, resulting in 'the complete j a conviction. Mr. Hermann, on the passenger list were Green and Stakely. worked in a factory ten long hours, is not enough poison in the heavenly
vagrant’s tail to make a beetle blink.”
overthrow of the house o f lords.
ottier side, expressed his faith in ac They were members of an opera troupe she has tailed the limit the laws of
Professor FroBt is not the only sky
A French liner'was wrecked in the quittal, and did not seem to worry over o f 11 that had been engaged to sing at this country should allow.
expert to ridicule the fears o f the Cal
the Casino in Algiers.
! the delay in reaching an agreement.
Mediterranean and 156 lives lost.
‘ ‘ But should the selfish desire of a ifornia eduucator who expressed great
Among the victims of the wreck was few men to sell gocds, to grind out
When 'the report of disagreement
Professor W. J Hussey, as
Z Nicaraguan rebels are preparing to j was made, the aged defendant showed the celebrated music-hall singer, Fran more orders, be allowed to stifle the alarm
move on Managua, and the fall of the more signs o f concern than at earlier cis Dufor, as well as other prominent needful demand of maidenhood and tronomer of the University of Michi
gan, joins in Professor Frost’ s hilarity
city is considered certain.
atuges of the case, and when it was ru music hall favorites.
motherhood?”
over the fear and trembling o f the Gol-
The
General
Chanzy
struck
at
9
mored
through
the
corridors
that
only
States
Attorney
Wayman,
of
Chi
Bandits looted the postoffice, general
d n Gate chemistry instructor.
store and hotel in Divide, Mont., and one man stood out, friends of Mr. Her o ’clock Thursday night, after Captain cago, who also asked the Supreme court
Professor Hussey said:
Cayol,
with
all
his
experience,
had
mann
realized
the
danger
to
which
he
to set aside the ruling of Judge Tuthill,
•scaped to the mountains.
“ All comets are of the same chemi
been
unable
to
cope
with
the
tempest
had been subjected, and gave voice to
declared that the legislature should
cal nature,
'lhe earth has passed
Society women in Washington, D. their concern.
o f almost unprecedented violence.
have power to protect human beings,
C., are getting considerably worried
George Selkirk is the one man who
Other ships in the neighborhood had ! as it has the power to protect animals. through comets before and no bad
effects have been felt. The comet is
over the high cost o f living.
safely ridden out the storm, but the
hung the jury.
"The legislature, we are told, has
14,000,000
miles away and the gas
Chanzy
fell
prey
to
the
elements,
was
The czarina o f Russia is said to be
no right to protect women from the ne
lifted off her course through the Ba cessity of being forced to work 24 from it wi’ i not be sufficient to pro
near death from nervous
troubles
WEST WARNS WALL STREET.
duce any noticeable effect. There can
learic archipelago and brought on the hours a day,” he said.
brought on by fear of assassination.
“ Yet it can
not be any possibble danger, even to
coast o f Majorca, near Ciudadela.
protect
quail
and
grouse
and
prairie
An Iowa man runs a deer farm, and
Fishermen at daybreak picked up chickens. It is an absurd legal propo an insect.”
Taft’s Lincoln Day Speech Meet»
has a herd o f about 100 deer, from
Both learned men gave their cheer
Rodel, clinging to a piece of wreckage. sition.”
With Approval.
which he Beils venison, hides and ant
ing predictions upon reading the dis
Attorney Haynie, representing the
lers.
patch from Berkeley embodying Pro
Chicago, Feb. 15.—That the country
REVISED BIBLE IS READY.
Illinois Manufacturers’ association, ar
fessor Booth’s theory that a brush o f
J. P. Morgan in announced as the has been reassured by President Taft
gued for upholding the decision of
the comet’s tail would mean destruc
president o f the Pan-American bank, in his Lincoln-day speech in New York Task o f 38 Years Ended by London Judge Tuthill.
tion of human beingB, even as insects
the greatest banking institution in the that the administration has no inten
Scholars.
in the path o f a squirt-gun. Professor
tion o f turning the business world
world.
London, Feb. 12.— Bible Btudents MRS. SAGE SCATTERS MONEY. Booth confided his fears as follow s:
topsy-turvy, and that the law-abiding
Stones hurled from the volcano Poas, corporations have nothing to fear, are are keenly interested in the announce
“ If astronomers are right in their
on the island o f Costa Rica, have killed keynotes sounded today in the editorial ment of a new edition o f a revised ver
Distributes Thousands Among Charit estimates of the amount o f cyanogen
many villagers who lived near the comment o f the country on the speech. sion of the New Testament, with full
gas in the tail of Halley’ s com
able Institutions o f Texas.
mountain.
et, and if that body’s vapors do envel
Western editors admonish
Wall marginal references. The task has ta
Galveston, Feb. 11.—About ten or 12 op the earth, we may have a chance to
On« o f the greatest railroad builders street that it is time to put its bogeys i ken 38 years, having been begun in
o f the present time says cement and away and get down to business on a 1871 by the late Dr. Frederick H. eleemosynary institutions and charita feel the sensations o f the bugs and in
concrete will eventually
supersede basis o f belief that legitimate business Scrivener and the late Professor Moul ble societies are the beneficiaries of sects which are killed by the use o f
is safe under the Taft administration. ton. The revised version published in the Russell Sage millions in amounts this deadly gas as an exterminator.
brick for nearly all building purposes.
The sentiment seems to be that the 1898 contained onyiy- abridged referen ranging from $C00 to $25,000 by rea
“ We will all be snuffed out if a suffi
It is feare 1 that the eruption of the president fell short o f convincing the ces.
son of a visit from Mrs. Russell Sage cient quantity o f the cyanogen gas
volcano Poas, on the island of Costa people that the tariff law is to be
In recent years Drs. J. H. Moulton to Texas. She denied herself to all unites with the hydrogen of
this
Rica, may cause earthquakes in the
trusted for results and that in spite o f and A. W. Greenup have been engaged newspaper interviews. Major Slocum, planet's atmosphere.”
said
to
be
her
nephew,
with
his
wife’
To many
Îhé’ caTaf“ 1* 1 * °ne’ * "d iK>Mibly injUre ^ « " n s w *Yor” speech? will go on as in completing the work.
verses o f gospel and epistles they have is accompanying Mrs. Sage.
before.
The reported contributions to char
Saloonman is Punished.
It is reported that the Canadian
The Democratic press expresses the added nearly 100 marginal references,
Des Moines, Feb. 10.—The Iowa Su
Northern railroad, backed by J. P. view that Mr. Taft is solicitous o f the each bearirg upon the text or meaning itable causes amount to something be
tween $140,000 and $150,000, but the preme court today decided that an in
Morgan, has acquired the holdings o f integrity of his party and that there is o f the verse.
" I often worked 10 to 13 hours a list is not complete as there are sever- junction against the illegal sale o f li
coal lands on Vancouver Island owned no less cause for worry now than there
by the Dunsmuir family, at a price of was before. He is credited with a sin day during my vacations,” said Dr. ■* donations ranging from $500 to quor, but not against the property, is
valid; that a faloonkeeper who con
cere desire to avert anything that Greenup, today. ‘ ‘ To aid me I had *3>°00 not given out.
» 11 , 000 ,( 100 .
A charitable ward in a large hos- sents to the injunction admits that he
large sheets printed with gospel text
would
upset
the
business
equilibrium,
King Gustav, o f Sweden, is rscov-
while at the same time affiering stead in large type and the amplest margins. ! P'ta' *n FI Paso is to receive $25,000. was maintaining a nuisance; that the
ering from a sever« operation.
orPhan asylum in Uvalde county lawful sale o f liquor is not a nuisance;
fastly to hia declared policy of making On these I compiled a list of referen- |
Kaatem bankers refuse to finance J. the corporations subservient to the ces. Reference to e single verse oc- gets $20,000, and a sanitarium fund and that those who violate the decree
cupied me, from first to last, 13 years,
. tuberculosis patients near Brackett- to which they agree are guitly o f con
P. Morgan's proposed telephone mer- public welfare, and not paramount.
ger.
With the exception of a few bark returning to it, as I did, over and over Tille wil1 *** swelled $25,000; Del Rio tempt of court and are barred for five
again.
home for homeless children receives years from engaging in the liquor bus
Mrs. Russell Sage has given $160,- ers, who do not relish the idea o f the
“ The publication will take place in a *15,000, and $10,000 goes for a sani- iness.
000 to various charitable institutions establishment o f a (Hiatal savings bank
at.®oel7le and P*"«*. and $15,-
system, and some manufacturers who few days and I presume the Bible stu-
The decision in effect declares that
in Texas.
are opposed to the new law relating to dents throughout the world rill want 000 for a hospital for consumptives.
by agreeing to an injunction a saloon
the
new
work
Abdul Hamid is reported to have at the regulation o f corporations, the men
keeper admits himself to be a law
tempted suicide by strangling himself o f affairs in Chicago generally indorse
Rivers in France Rising.
breaker and loses his right to engage
with a silk handkerchief.
Davenport Quits East.
the president’s speech and policies.
Paris, Feb 11.—Flood conditions in in business.
Middletown. N. Y ., Feb. 12.—The the Eastern sections are becoming
President Taft has approved the
Arabian horses, cattle, and other live worse. The Marne, near Rheims, rose
Wealthy Aviator Drops.
plan for restoring 4,000,000 acres of
Columbia Holds Record.
reserve land te settlement.
Marysville, Cal., Feb. 15.— Frank stock owned by Homer Davenport, the 15 inches today, and inhabitants of
Washington, Feb. 10. -
Reports
famous
cartoonist,
which
have
been
on
va"
ey
«re
fleeing with their be- from the teams of nine colleges Twhich
It has been proved that forest rang J. Johnson, the San Rafael million exhibition at Senator
Richardaon’s
'onK'ngs.
The
river
Aisne
roee
three participated in last week’s shoot o f the
ers under Pinchot attended college and aire, this afternoon, after announcing farm near Goshen. Orange county, fept in • f f w hours. Pathetic scenes
that he would attempt to establish a
IntercoHegi.te Indoor Rifle league
drew pay at the same tim«.
world’s record by traveling over a were shipped to California today. The were witnessed in many places, for the
foUowing'pcore.; Colombia,
A bed of genuine fire opals has been course o f 20 miles and encircling the lease o f one year on the Richardson Tictim* of the last flood were just be-
discovered near Kamloops, B. C., and Sutter Buttes, mounted hia Curtiss farm has nearly expired.
Owing to * inn!nK to return to their damaged 1.93 University of Idaho, 1779; Un-
the action for divorce instituted by houses when they were obliged to versity of Iowa, 1775; George Wash-
a company is forming to market the biplane and made a start.
'¿J. 1762; Cornell Un-
|«ms.
After traveling to the north end of Mrs. Davenport and the condition of leave again. It is estimated that the
State Col-
Flood conditions in France are again the track he turned around and on his hia health, it is not believed the car Seine at Paria will remain stationary
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UniUd
State«
College
from
Friday
until
Monday.
toonist
will
return
East.
He
is
ill
in
becoming alarming, many being driven return the machine dropped to the
vlrV t " I ” « Sur*eona- 1652; Uni-
out o f their bom ,a for the second time ground and crashed into the fence, San Diego, Cal.
;
Nevada, 1642; Louisiana
Big * » .0 0 0 ,0 0 0 Melon Cut.
by rising waters.
He escaped with nothing more than a
X-Ray May Cure Leprosy.
State University, 1592. A Columbia
few
slight
bruises.
Philadelphia.
Feb.
11.—
The
share
The scope o l the senate's inquiry in
marksman made the h igheet «core.
Denver, Feb. 12.— Believing that
holders of ths United Gas 4 Improve*
to the cost o f livinfc has been widened
certain rays of the X-ray machine may
ment company, at a special meeting
Worat Feared for Tug.
to include not only food and clothing,
King G o«, Under Knife.
cure leproey. Dr. George H. Stover, a
but many other articles, and also Sal
Boston, Feb. 1&. — No newt o f the Denver physician, started for Hawaii here today voted to cut a $9,000,000
Fab. 10.— King Gustave
melon.
They
agreed
to
a
10
per
cent
aries, earnings and the tariff.
miaeing naval tug Nina, which left today with the intention o f making ex
eiti*01^ ^ 2? ton'Kht for append i-
Ex Queen Liliuokala.ii. poor, dis Norfolk for the Charlestown navy yard periments at the leper colony at Ifo- dividend, payable in stock.
cvtia. The effici., . «port. iU te that
couraged and broken in health, has re February 8, came today to relieve the lokai. Dr. Stover took with him a
the operation was a i
Cotton mills now under construction has been*.!,'*
*, ,ucc**«- Th« kin«
turned to her native lend from Wash anxiety as to her fate.
The belief ia small, but specially constructed appar
about
to
be
eonetructod
in
th«
South
der«, h isM id^that'" Ìnl*ri’ *1 dÌSOr‘
• been seeking ree- growing that ahe went to the bottom atus supplied with a new feature of
re present en outlay o f about $20,000,- diagnosed bis
the phyiiciane
i end wealth.
with her crew.
hia own invention.
¡ 000.
,
'»»• as requiring im
p e d is t e operation.
Newsy Items Gathered irum All
Parts ot the World.
ni
One Man Blocks Conviction—Eleven
Believe ex-Commlssioner Guil
ty, But Cannot Con
vince the Twelfth
CALHOUN DEFENDS WOMEN
Fierce Mediterranean Storm
Drives Vessel on Reef.
California’s Professor Says Gases
May Destroy Life.
ONE SURVIVOR REACHES LAND
EASTERN SCIENTISTS SAY NOT SO
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