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Roman Catholics Leave
i New York on Jubi
lee Pilgrimage,
' (Journal Special Service)
; NEW TORK, July t There was
great waving of hats and handkerchiefs
; from the crowd assembled on tne ho-
taken docks this morning to witness the
departure of the steamer North America
, ' ' carrying the first section- of the Roman
Catholic Jubilee pilgrimage to Rome.
Tbe,palrty numbers more than 100 clergy
v and laymen, and under the spiritual
' direction of the Very Rev. E. H. Por-
". clle. of Brooklyn The second section
Is scheduled to sail the tatter part of
the .week. The two sections will form a
Junction at soma , European point and
proceed to Rome .together.
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AN ELECTRIC
v'-- FRANCHISE
Cfaas. H. Baker Wants an Amend
' . ment of Ordinance.
Charles H. Baker, who proposes
to bring electricity from Bnoqual
mle Falls. 'Wash., to the City of
Portland, providing the Council
will '" grant him a franchise, . has
written abetter to the Mayor and
.City Council, offering to accept the
'ordinance, now pending, with cer
' 4- taia amendments.
4-' The ordinance now calls for a de
' posit Of HO.00O. and offers to let the
franchise to the . highest bidder,
Instead of asking a percentage of
4" the earnings. The letter follows:
To . ;tha!J Mayor and Common
"4" Council of .the . City of Portland
1 4 Referring io the electrical f ran
w 4- ehlso ordinance now pending; before
the City Council. I have to say
that if the franchise be amended
so as ttf provide that the tax upon
t4- gross receipts of the party operat- 4-
lag thereunder ba amended so is to
4- provide for, a deposit of 15000, and 4-4-
no more payable in first mortgage 4-4-
(old bonds, to bo approved by the
4- Mayor, I , will bo willing to accept -f
4- the ordinance. v . , .4.
4 -'I would be.. wllUng to accept It 4-4-
with these burdens, notwlthstand- 4
( 4-. Ing the fact that the tax imposed 4
4-'la a differential In favor of the 4-4-
company now on1 the ground, which
4-, has . an esUbllshed business. I 4-4-'
would not quarrel with the tax
4-' provided la the ordinance If it were 4.
4- Imposed on alt parties engaged in 4-4-
the same line of business, but It 4-4-;
is manifestly unfair that one elec- 4-4-
trio light company should be sub- 4-4-
Jscted to a . ux erom which Its 4-
, 4- competitor Is relieved. . ,
4-. -"The. concession of a deposit of 4-4-
I5O0O is made only in an effort to 4-
meet the . views of tho Council
4- half way, and demonstrates my de 4.
4- sirs to do business In the City of 4-4-
Portland.M 4?
4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4- 4-4-
SHE ELOPED
WITH A NEGRO
(Journal Special Service.)
v 'i . SCHENECTADY. N. Y.. July t-Jo
, aapaue uuarainer, is, a daughter of a
wealthy contractor of Auburn, N. Y., and
, James Cooper, a negro coachman, for
merly employed by the girl's father,
. were arrested on complaint of the girl's
mother, who had followed the couple to
; this city. , The two were found In a
boarding house on Ferry street. The
. girl' boldly expressed her infatuation for
her 'negro companion. She was taken in
charge, by her mother and Cooper was
: out of the City.
HE WAS A
JHUMAN BRUTE
MEMPHIS. Tenn.. - July 1. Ellen
.Thompson, before a Justice of the Peace
at Ripley. Miss., confessed that O. J.
! Thompson killed her husbund at Caruth
ersville, Mo., and at the point of a shot
gun forced her to move Into a shanty
, boat with her two children,' aged 12 and 4,
and follow him down the river. As a
finale to the tragedy, she asserts, he
poisoned the two children with Iodine, be
cause he said he was afraid they would
talk. Thompson is now In Jail in Ripley.
5 Tho woman is also held as the chief wit
ness for tne state.
REVENUE LAW GOES INTO
' GENERAL EFFECT TODAY
t', ' m (Journal Special Service.)
- .WASHINGTON, D. C. July l.-The
r aatoJht of Federal taxes paid by the peo-
pie of tho United Btates la lessened to the
extent of about 177,000.00 annually by
virtue of tho new revenue law which went
i Inw effect today. The new measure
amounts to a virtual repeal of all the
'Spanish war revenue taxes except the
to on mixed flour. The duty on tea re
. mains until January J next to enable
thoso woo have stocks on hand to. dis
poso of them before tho repeal takes' .ef
fect J fK.p-';K'- -X.;.
"With tho going into affect of the new
measure tho war revenue tax is repealed
4a tho following: Bakers, brokers, deal
ers m, grain, securities, etc.,' pawnbrokers,
oustom house brokers, proprietors of
ithoaurs, oirouass and other public exhl
klUoas, proprietors of bowling alleys and
SHE'MARRIED
: 'A .WOMAN
The Strange Freak of a Qirl in
Baltimore! Maryland. ' '
(Journal Special Bervtos.)
BALTIMORE. Md,' July 1. Lotta
Sawyer, the 26-year-old girl who
married Mrs. Emallne L. Rauck
and lived with, her a week before
her true sex was discovered, will
be released by the police and will
return to her home In Camden
County, N. C She had been held
on the technical charge of obtain
ing 1100 by raise pretenses from
Mrs. Rauck. .The woman has mas
queraded" Six years as Herman O.
Wood, drarik, chewed and smoked
like a man. She had flirted with
Birls rind made herielf conspicuous
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at ti: joi rooms across the rver.
T" 'At I- left her home One night.
vl.i i ;;er child was a week old,
and walked to Norfolk, where she
donned men's apparel. In this dls-
4-
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4-, guise she came to Baltimore. She
4- has visited Norfolk on several oc
f casions, but always in the guise of
4- a man. '
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OLEO TAX
(Journal Special Servian.)
CHICAGO, July l.The Grout bill pro
viding for an Increase in the tax on col
ored oleomargarine from I to 10 cents per
pound went into effect today. While it is
serious blow to .the big packers who
have been making millions through their
luttertne product, they have no Idea of
succumbing Without a struggle. ' , The
Armour Packing Company has dovlaed a
schema to circumvent the provlt'ons of
the law and if the plans proves successful
it will ba followed by the other packers.
While supplying the oleomargarine uncol-
ored. the tax on which is but 44 of a cent
ter pound, - the company purposes to
furnish' dealers tht coloring matter
that is, a composition to bring the ole
margarlna up to he complexion of butter
in convenient, law-evading capsules.
When a pound of th product is sold a
capsule is to be given the purchaser. The
new law, permits families to buy the un-
colored product and color it at home, but
the privilege la not extended to hotels pr
rasUunuita-',-'i'!"r":y;V-. . ,
DIVORCE LAW
IS REMODELED
(Journal Special Servlcs.)
PROVlLiENCE, R. I., July L Hereto
fore it has been almost as easy a matter
to obtain a divorce tn Rhode Island as in
the Dakotas, but the conditions in this
regard are radically changed by the new
divorce law , which went into operation
today. The most important clause in the
new law ts that requiring a bona -fide res
idence In the state of at least two years
before applying for a divorce. This is
expected to put a stop to the practice of
wealthy women of New York and else
where coming to Newport, establishing
so-called residence and tn a few months
obtaining an annullment of the marriage
contract on the ground of non-support.
MANUAL TRAINING
(Journal Special Service.)
PITTSBURG, Pa.. July 1. Manual
training teachers from Detroit, Cleveland,
Dayton, Philadelphia, New York, Wash
ington and numerous other cities were
present today when the Eastern Manual
Training Association opened Its ninth an
nual meeting In Allegheny. During the
Cay papers treating of various questions
of Interest to those enguged in manual
training worlt' were presented by Super
intendent Hall man of Dayton, Ohio; Su
perintendent R. O. Boone, of Cincinnati;
Dr. John A. Brashear, of Western Uni
versity and Professor Charles P. Blnns,
of New York City.
In conjunction with .the meeting there
Is an elaborate dlsulay of the work of
manual training classes throughout the
country.
(Journal-Special Service.)
PEORIA, 111.. July l.-The Prohibition
state convention was called to order here
shortly after 1 .o'clock this afternoon by
Hale Johnson, chairman of the state
central committees. Tfie convention will
place -in nomination candidates for the I
state officers to be voted for at the full
election, and also candidates for Con
gress and for the Legislature In all the
districts of the state.
Subscriptions recevied for The Journal
at any of B B Rich's cigar stores
billiard rooms, dealers in leaf tobacco;
dealers in tobacco, manufacturers of to
bacco, manufacturers of cigars, instru
ments, papers or documents; delivers or
transfers of. stock; sales and agreements
of sales of agreements to sell stocks,
product or merchandise; wines', seats In
parlor' or palace cars and berths in sleep
ing cars, legacies and distributive shares
of personal property, excise taxes on per.
sons, firms, companies and corporations
engaged in refining petroleum and sugar.
On the following articles the tax Is re
duced: - Fermented liquors, to f 1.00 per
barrel; snuff .and tobacco,, to s cents per
pound; cigarettes weighing mora than
three-pounds per 1,000 reduced to $3.00 per
thousand. ' "
The tax on mixed flour and oleomar
garine, not being a- war revenue tax, Is
tuccun i ua new law,
Illinois ph.
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Two Pays
1 WWW
IH(0H
Is Being Held Today in
Galveston, Texas.
(Journal Special Service.)
GALVESTON, Texas., July 1. With the
object of creating a' better, feeling be
tween tho races and fostering any move
for the uplifting of .the negro, several
hundred delegates from all parts of the
South assembled hero today for the sec
ond annual meeting of, the Southern ne
gro congress. Since the movement was
inaugurated at a meeting held last year
at Jackson, Miss., tt has enlisted the
hearty co-operation1 of many Of the most
prominent negroes "of 1 the South and the
large and representative attendance in
the present meeting Is evidence of the
widespread Interest which the congress
has awakened. The chief matters sched
u led for discussion at the four days'
sessions are the education question, out
rages and lgnchlngs ' and tho 'negro in
politics, , L: -i u--. .
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An Indiana Cur Who
GloriesinHisShame.
(Journal Special Service,)
LA PORTE. Ind., July 1. La porta
County has a wife beater who glories in
the accomplishment. When brought into
police court George Kovlack said: "1
juhi gave my who a gooa . ucKing.
Mrs . Kovlack's blackened eye and
bruised face were evidence of the
sertlon. . Judge Casaidy administered a
stinging rebuke, regretted the fact that
he could not order the prisoner to ba
flogged in publc, and then ordered , hint
sent to Jail ton 20 .jrs,. ; , ,v
AVENJGED HIS
FATHER'S DEATH
(Journa) Special Servioo.)
KNOXVILLE. Tenn,', Juiy t-'There's
the man who killed m.y father." As Ray
Smith, U,,: uttered these words he fired
twice at Judge David Rogers, "who was
tering the dining room .of Smith's Hotel
at Maynard. Unlprt County, , Judge Rog
ers fell dead, pierced by two b,uUets. VThe
tragedy war-thasefldel of ' murder
Which occurred In Wu4 -Olty' July U. ,1896,
when Judge Rogers kHled e. ,WV. Smith.
father of Ray, la pistol duel In sa.
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GRAND MILITARY AND CIVIC PARADE
LITERARY EXERCISES ..... FIRE WORKS
BOAT RACES BAND CONCERT EVE-
NINQ OF
REDUCED RATES ON ALL LINES OF TRAVEL
loon. The boy swore to avenge his fath
er's death- with the life of his slayer, and
did so. He escaped and is at large.
MORE-PAY
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(Journal Special Service.)
WASH tf( GTON; D. C, ,uiy X-tn the
readjustment of salaries ,of postmasters
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4. &
CARROLL D,
The United States Labor Commissioner
cite coat mines and has made : a report to President
Roosevelt.' ' Tlr. Wright visited the-mlneg and
gathered his Information at first hand. 1
at Presidential offices,-, effective today.
2,030 postmasters receive Increased salaries
aggregating (252,200. .The number of in
creases this year is 239 la excess of last
year and is the largest 10 the history of
th posut service. ' ""VX r"r- T "
f hat's All; Wte Married."
(Journal Special 8ervlce.) w ' '
IJEW TORK, July , t.-Myton ;CaJlce
'lf Aanl." Stanton Jobnsot, Both' mem-W T; ;' 'J ' '
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THte a: "
bers of the Andrew Mack: Company, went
to the West Side police court and asked
Magistrate Brann to marry them.
The magistrate wouldn't, but directed
them to go to a lawyer's office, where
they could be married under the marriage
contract law.
The couple went to the office of Law
yer . Benjamin GreenthaL, - across the
street, rie drew up the contract and said
to Calcice: -
''Do you take this woman to bo your
WIGHT.
Investigated the strike at the anthra
Wifef ,
Calico said that he d6V
Then'the lawyer asked. Miss Johnson
if she too' Calcic to bo- her husband.
She dltf. , - . ' . ; ' ;
-That's ail," said the lawyer, Tou're
married." j " - . ,
i One hundred and fifty landladies have
been 'summoned at Vienna for taking in
boarders without the permission of ' the
Celebf at 5om)9 Jyly ,4
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SHOT IN
THE: DARKNESS
. . (Journal Special Service.)
TERRB HAUTSUInd.,' July 1,-TerreU
Tipton was shot, and ' killed by ,an - un
known assassin while sitting In a barber
shop at Ehrmandale, Just.nprth of here.
The top of his head was blown off, ap
parently by a shotgun.
Tipton shot and : badly wounded Dan
Watts, a saloonkeeper at Ehrmanndale,
some time ag'o, as Watts had made Tip
ton dance around a chalk mark on the
floor , at the point of a revolver in Watts'
saloon. , Tipton then secured a gun and
shot Waff. but'he;iatfef fscovered.-;.
Last night a platform dance was given
at Ehrmanndale. and' Tipton wKh . sev
eral other men "wero .sitting Jn ,a bar
ber. shop, smoking, wnen 'some one fired J
a ciiai(TB .iiirvugnpne rwinaow ' Kniing
Tipton instantly and , escaping ' in ' (the
dark. None of the other,-melt were ln
3ured.,-jrri";.f. -'i -'-h-
DUD ii lro'ii
Threatens to Fire His
Mother Wof Old
Madrid.
(Journal Special Service.)
MADRID, July l.-Sinoe the coronation
of King. Alfonso. (the quarrels between
htm and the Dowager Queen Maria, his
mother, have beea so frequent and ivio'
lent that they have become a veritable
scanaai. ' Her slightest effort to guide
tho monarch ha resulted in a tirade of
stable boy profanity. Recently, in the
presence of servants, the young King in.
formed his mother that he would expel
her front the palace If she did not re
spect his wishes: " Alfonso's manners
have been generally insufferable since
his coronation. -' -
NEW YORK TO ST. LOWS
IN TWENTY HOURS
AliTpONAr Pav, - July - t-Persohs ' who
have" been following the fortunes of the
Pennsylvania' railroad's , new j K-hour
flyer between New' York and Chicago will
doubtless be surprised to learn that every
day a train Is run over the main line at a
considerable greater speed than that of
tho Pennsylvania special, variously dub
bed the VRe4 ) Ripper"t rand the "Red
Demon.' i For a Utile tnore than a week
tho Pennsylvania, has been . running a'
mail and' newspaper train which covers
the 1.0BS miles from Kew fork to St
Ixuis In exactly Ip hours. -:- i v
The average running, time of- the new
train it Bl. roll n hour. o account ot
bridge buUdlng on tho line, between Phil
adelphia- and'v Altoonsr; and the heavy
grades on. th division between this city
ana fitieDurr, tne real speeding has to be
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Louisiana Poultry Man
kit J. ft. ll;
meeis ueatn in a
Dispute.
(Journal Special Service.)
TEXARKANA, Tex.. i
Goldonna, Xa., 40 miles south of this
place, a shocking tragedy
terday. E, W. Loe,' a poultry raiser, re-'
turning from market, stopped at tho
house of M. O. Ounter
Upon leaving a settlement was made for
the feed furrilshed the animl: b
aispbte arose as' to the chafes: ' riW
4rew his revolver and shot three ilnW
.... tiiiu rcurea to Boa SO
and in the presence of his wfiafanff pAh-
dren drew his Winchester from' over the
door and r fired at Loe. kllllna- him in.
santly, Gunter surrendered. '
UP TO SNUFF
wvurnu special oervice. ,
NEWf ORK, Jury l.-E. "D. Christian
today became treasurer of the -American '
Snutf Company, succeeding Oeofge Di
Woodslde, who recently resigned.' Tho
new treasurer has been connected with
the combination for some "time." .
1
May Cause the Death
of a Criple Creek :
; .
(Journal Special Servieiy f" V
CRIPPLE CREEK, Ohio, JulytIn sj
saloon brawl at Divide O. McAleer, a sawi ,
mill man, was struck on tho nose by an
unknown man and nearly bled to death,
from the effects of the bloW, which" rup
tured a blood vessel, although an ordU
nary fist blow. it was, more , than am
hour before, medical aid ' was' secured
McAleer was brought to the eounty hos
pltal her where he1 u In' st very; weaUf
condition and little hopes are given fosj
his Mc6very,a 4;-...
KILLED BY ' HORSE THIEYES
OUTHRIB;v O. T Sheriff, Bullsrd and)
Under Sheriff ; Cogbutn.;.of R6jrei! Milia
County, Oklahoma, were klllei yesterday)
m a battle j. with horsethlfves while the: '
officers were attempting to arresl menve
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