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CHICAGO IS SECOND CITY.
Population Almoat Doubles in
Year* Fourth in World.
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Washington The population of Chi-
i -ago ia 2, ¡85,283, an incresae of 486,-
70« or 26.7 per cent as compared with
■«tings of the World at Large 1.698,575 in 1800.
This announcement leaves Chicago
Told in Brief
ranking in population as the second
city of the United States and the
General Return« of Important Eventi fourth in the world.
Chicago has almost doubled Its popu
Presented In Condensed Form
lation
since )«96, when the flgurvo
for Our Busy Readers.
were 1,099,650.
Its greatest growth
during that period was between 1690
American apples are bringing 8 to and 1900, when there was an increase
12 cents a pound in England.
of 54.4 per cent.
Its increase in population during the
Secretary of War Dickinson met
last decade was not so great propor
with a hearty reception at Pekin.
Two freight trains met in head-on tionately as that of New York, the
killing four rate of increase being 10 per cent less
than that scored by the Eastern city.
President Taft will ask <2.006,660 New York is yet ahead of its closest
to begin the fortification of the Pana rival by 2.M1.A5O.
ma canal.
Chicago, however, can claim distinc
The Spanish parliament ia expected tion in having jumped from sixth to
to fully endorse the policy of Premier
foutth place among the big cities on
Canalejas.
the globe, il is following on the heels
Union and Confederate soldiers min
of Paris, whose population by its cen
gled at Grand Army reunion at At
sus in 1901 was 2,714,086. Chicago
lantic City, N. J.
King Emmanuel, of Portugal, has takes percedrnce over Tokio and Berlin
According to the
appointed 16 new peers, all supjoriers by close margins.
census taken in each of the two cities
of the present ministry.
By an alliance with Bulgaria and in 1908, Tokio had 2,0X6,160 anti Ber
Servia, Montenegro ia elevated from a lin 2.040,148.
The |>>pulation of New Orleans ia
principality to the ranks of a full
339,075, an increase of 61,971 or 18.1
fledged kingdom.
per cent as compared with 287,104 in
New Orleans is disappointed at the 1900. While New Orleans' growth
poor showing made in the census, and the last decade was only slightly below
fears it may affect her chances for the her percentage of increase of the dr
1916 Panama exposition.
cade, the Crescent City through the
Thr<-e out of 13 entries in the balloon rapid growth of other cities in the
contest which started at Indianapolis 100,000 class loses its position of 12th
returned to earth within 24 hours, in the district of the country's larg-st
cities and now occupies 15th [««sition.
having made about 40« miles.
Detroit. with a 63 per cent increase,
Secretary Wilson pays postage on
Milwaukie, with 31 |>er cent, and New
copies of bis speech which were sent
ark, with 47.2 per cent, all have
through the mails, refusing to take
jum|>ed ahead of New Orleans in the
advantage of the franking privilege.
number of inhabitants.
Captain Klaus I.arsen, in a small
Holyoke, Maas., has 67,730 people,
motor boat, traversed Niagara rap an increase of 12,018, or 26.3 per cent
ids for a distance of 4 S miles below as compared with 46,712 in 1900.
the falls, but was Anally thrown on the
Lowell. Mass., has 106,294 people,
rocks and hauled ashore by a rope. an increase- of 11,326, or 11.9 |ier cent
The boat was hat.
as compared with 94,969 in 1900.
Pittsfield, Maas., has 32,121 people,
Charles M. Schwab, ex president of
the Steel trust, says that San Francia- an increase of 10,355, or 47.6 |>er cent
co is "oliaesaed with unionism,“ and as compared with 21,766 in 1900.
collision near Cairo, III.,
men.
that in case he gets the contract for a
number of new battleship« for China,
they will not be built there.
UPRISING IS PREDICTED.
President Taft celebrated his 53rd Professor Roes Expects Disturbance
In China.
birthday, Thursday, Septmcber 16.
Victoria,
B.
C. Professor E. A.
Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma,
Rosa, of the sociology department of
charges Roosevelt with insincerity.
the University of Wisconsin, who has
Roosevelt deferuis his "New Nat been
making
extend«! journeys
lonaliam" in an address at Oyster Bay. ■ through China during the past six
"Uncle Joo" Cannon has ticen re months, studying sociological condi
nominated for congress by a small ma tions, has arrived here by the steamer
Empress of China. He said China was
jority.
on the verge of a crisis, and the next
San Francisco police are charged by few months would show whether there
the mayor with protecting dancehall would be a great uprising, ¡wrhape
proprietors.
with much bloodshed, or a ¡«-accable
Fourteen cases of cholera were found revolution.
on a ship which had just arrived at Al- Í
ProL-aaor Rosa says there ia a strong
movement for reform, and that the
menla, Spain, from Egypt
younger element s«*eking the change is
It ia estimated that 2,400 people went
waiting to see what the prince regent
to the Salem. Ore., fair from Port
will do. The reformers consider the
land on Portland day, September 16.
attitude of Pekin more or leas a sham
Highwaymen held up two auto par to impress the powers and there is a
ties within a mile of Oregon City and disposition to look upon the Man-
Secured about <1,000 in money and chu officials as obstacles in the way
jewelry.
of the eagerlv sought reforms.
It is probable that Yuan Shi Kai
The Are loss on the south aide of
will
return to I’ckin, and thia would be
Eraser river. B. C., ia estimated at
<200,000, and several persona are the means of preventing a rising if
the reformers arc satisfied that in his
missing.
hatvia China would go forward.
Cur
President Taft, in a letter to Secre rency reform will be a great boon,
tary Nagel, announces that Federal and the doing away with the growing
patronage will not be withheld from in-! of opium, a movement which ia being
sargenta.
energetically carried out, will also
Retail grocers of the state of Wash greatly aid China.
ington have paaaed resolutions against
trading stamps, premiums, and the
Judge Calls Fee Too High.
parcels post.
Ixw Angeles Judge Rives, of the
Senator Beveridge told the conven probate court has refused to lend ju
tion of Indiana bankers that the govern dicial approval to a contract granting
ment should have supervision over sll attorneys for Beatrice Anita Turnbull-
Baldwin, 50 per cent of the amount
big eorporstions.
they may recover for from the eatatc
Caleb E. Powers, who was alleged of Elias Jackson Baldwin. Attorneys
to have been concerned in the murder acting in behalf of Miss Turnbull-
of Governor Goebel, of Kentucky, has Baldwin, made the request for such a
been nominated for congress.
contract to authorise the employing
Helen Gould gave a children'a circus of certain attorneys, with the agree
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at he* country home in New York, in ment to give them half of whatever
which over 400 members of her sewing should be recovered by litigation or
compromise.
class and frisada participated.
George H. Primcwe, the world-
famed minstrel, is about to be re-uni-
ted with hie wife, from whom he sep
arated last July. He ia now 60 years
old.
Five persons have died of cholera at
Danslg. Prussia, and many more are
ill.
The Southern Paciflc has sutweribed
<40,000 to the New Orleans exposition
fund.
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Russia and Turkey Allies.
Railroad officials
say increased
Paris The Temps confirms the re
freight rates nearly all goes back to
port
that Turkey and Russia have en
the people.
tered into military alliance, and says
Fire destroyed an Alaska cannery, that the convention indicate« Turkey's
together with <120,060 worth of freshly spprochement with the power« in the
triple alliance.
parked salmon.
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FLAG SALUTED
BY OLD RIVALS
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TANG TAKES REINS,
Progress.vs Friend of Americs
sumes Control in China.
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LATEST ZEPPELIN
AIRSHIP BURNED
Victoria. B. C. Kokomin Shimbun,
j of Tokio, in the course of a long ar-
’ tide on the change of policy at Pekin
I inion and Confederate Veterans i in recalling Tang Shao Yi and making Benzine Tank Explodes While
Ship Is Being Housed
overtures to Yuan Shia Kai to return,
Mingle at Atlantic ( it)
Í says the appointment foretells great
■ievelopmcnt of American influence in
The Kokumin Three of Crew Hurt Balloon an En.
"Disi«" Arouses Cheers Movement China in the future.
tire Wreck—Had Been In
to Unite Grend Armies to Elim
inate Sectional Feeling.
¡««y*:
Passenger Service.
"It ia out of the question to expect
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that the policy of Tang Shao Yi, who
aecured hta position as a representa
Baden Baden The lateat type of
Atlantic City, N. J.. Sept. 20.--The
live uf the Yuan party, wilt be favor Count Zrppelin'e inventive geniua met
hotels, piers ami board walk ate crowd
ed with old soldiers aid their families able to Japan. Moreover, he is a no with disaster here when the dirigible
here to attenJ the 44th annual encamp torious pro-American atateaman and balloon Zeppelin VI took fire after an
ment of the Grand Army of the Repub his appclnttr.rn! feretelb the great de explosion while being warped into her
lic.
Every train brings re enforce velopment of American influence in shed. A score or more of men were
engaged in the task of houaing the air
ments to the crowd that began arriv
* China in the future.
He repreaented ship when a benxine tank in the rear
ing last week.
Five thousand Veterans gs the red in China in America and made many gondola exploded, setting fire to an ad
The explosion
the Savoy theater and listened to a promises in America regarding Man- jacent compartmenL
patriotic sermon by the Rev. Rols-rt i churls and railway questions. It will of this compartment was followed by
the explosion of the 16 others.
A. Elwo<d. chaplain of th« department
be interesting to watch the progress
There was a gush of flames and the
of Pennsylvania.
whole structure was destroyed in a
Commander Van Sant and Hilary A. of these dvs<i promisee."
The Kokumin looks upon Tang Shao few minutes. Three of the crew were
Herbert, of Albany, ex secretary of
the navy and a general in the Confed Yi a* "one of the principal factora in injured.
Nothing remain«! of Count Zeppe
erate army, were the principal speak ' diplomatic circlea in the Far East,"
lin's latest model except a tangled
ers st a large gathering of veterans on
and considers him the enemy of Japan
of aluminum frames.
the steeplechase pier.
The shed also caught fire, but the
General Herbert eulogized the mem- and friend of America.
iicra of th« Grand Army. Hr told how
Tang Shao Yi, who was reinstated blue was rut out without serious dam
the wearers of the blue and the wear in hia poet of minister of communica age. Several workmen were , burned,
ers of the grsy were welded together tions last month, is decidedly progres but none fatally.
in the cause of the Union.
The igniting of the Iwnxine occurred
sive. After his restoration the re
Commander-in chief Van Sant ami gent, Prince Chun, issued a strict edict while workmen were cleaning the ma
General Daniel E. Sickles both said notifying viceroys and governors that chinery, during which the benzine
The cause of the
they would work for the proposition foreign loans are indispensable in the holders were open.
advocated by General Herl>ert, of development of the imp-nsl railway fire hue not been ascertained.
bringing the grizzled veterans of the system, and instructing them to su|>-
Zeppelin VI, during the last 18 days,
North snd South together.
It is be preas anti-foreign agitation. Tang is has made 34 pas-enger trips, covering
lieved that thia demonstration of feel an ardent friet-d of America,
sbout 2,000 miles, and carrying more
ing will end th« agitation against the
than 300 passengers. The flights of
placing of a statue of General R. E.
the dirigible were made regularly, oft
SEA WALL IS WASHED OUT.
Lee in Statuary Hall at Washington.
en in unfavorable weather.
A remarkable acene occurred with
This is the fifth K'-rious accident
the entrance of General Sickles.
As Scores of Men Work to Savs Houses which has befallen the Zeppelin dirig
on Long Beach.
he swung down the aisle the veterans
ibles.
arose as one man and four of his com
The Zeppelin VI was under charter
Los Angele« Scores of men are
mand lift«) him. chair and all, and working unceasingly to fortify resi | of the Passenger Airship company,
placed him on the platform while the dences along the ocean front at Long having replaced in the passenger ser
band played “Dixie” and the crowd Beach againat the waters which broke vice the recently wrecked Deutschland.
cheered as General Sickles grasped the through a protecting cement wall and It was transferred from Friedrichshaf
folds of a huge silk Aag, with Com left the houses ex|)oaed to the fury of en to this place, anil after being fitted
mander Van Sant. General Herbert the breakers.
with improved propellers and new
stepped up and said:
Many l»rach house« were left under features, made a trial trip on August
"Had 1 been told when I waa in Antie mined by the washing of the waves, 119. It proved to !«• the speediest" of
tam that in the years to come I would snd unl«*aa the foundations are rein its type, and it was announced that it
stand side by aide with F«drral sold forc'd within the next few hours they would maintain a speed of 38 miles an
iers snd grasp the Stars and Stripes will fall into the sea. A half mile of hour.
with them, I would have been insulted. the breakwater, as much of the sea
The dirigible was reconstruct«! to
But 1 love that old flag now."
wall, and nearly a mile of concrete erry 10 passengers, stxi in the last few
Commander Van Sant said he was aidewalk were waahed out.
days had made several trips.
Many
proud of the fact that no American
One building colla|«ed from the Americans were among the exeuraion-
army ever surrendered to anything force of the waves.
An apartment i tats. Baron Rudolph Goldamidt-Roth-
but an American army.
house of 40 rooms ia in a m<«t perilous | child had chartered the airship for the
A ripple of applause greeted the insition, and there ia every probability use of a private party. He had agreed
mention of Colonel Roosevelt during that the building will fall. The house U> pay t .’•<><» for the first two hours of
the Grand Army leader's address. The is now standing on the sheerest ledge. the excursion, and <250 for each ad
name of President Taft waa men The danger had treen threatened for ditional hour.
tioned.
three days and residents were appre
hensive of their momentary peril.
FALLIERES SEES DIRIGIBLES.
NEW NAVY FOR CHINA.
Electric light poles fell during the
night like ninepins. The trouble ia French Army Corps Use Aeroplanes
Entire Fleet of Battleships May Be due to the unusually high tides.
In Field Maneuvers.
Built on Coast.
San Francisco A fleet of battle
ship« for the Chinese navy ia to be
built in San Francisco. Millions will
lie spent here in the (»urchaae of sup
plica ami for the living expenses of
thousands of workmen needed to turn
out the gigantic order, if the efforts of
some of the foremost financiers of thia
country arc crowned with success.
This ia the pur|>o«c« of a visit which
Charles M. Schwab, ex-president of the
United States Steel cvr|x>ration and
owner of the Union Iron works ami
other large planta. ia to pay to thia
coast.
The big financier ia hurrying across
the continent in hie private ear to
mwt Prince Teal Haun, uncle of the
emperor of China, who ia due to arrive
on the steamer Manchuria.
Schwab
and hia party, which comprises promi
nent steel magnst-a, will accompany
the Chinees imperial party to Wash
ington.
Ward Workers Unionised.
Milwaukee, Wis. One of the first
unions of city employes in the country
waa organized here by ward workers
of the Seventh. Eleventh, Twelfth snd
Fourteenth wards, and sponsored by
Socialist municipal officiate.
There
were* 30 present, waterwagon drivers,
ward teamsters, steam roller men and
street sweepers. There waa some sus
picion on the part of the wardworkers
as to what position they would be in if
the preaent administration should be
ousted al the next election two years
hence.
Shadowed The«« Years,
Chicago George W. Fitzgerald, a
former aaaorting teller in .the Chicago
Federal subtreaaury, waa arrested by
deputy United States marshals,charged
with the theft of <173,000 from the
subtrraaury on February 9,
1907.
Fitlgerald was arrested on a bench
warrant on an indictment returned se
cretly by a Federal grand jury Febru
ary 17, 1910.
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Cattle Firm Indicted.
Sacramento -A special to the Union
from Carson City, Nev,, says that the
Federal grand jury has found an in
dictment againat the Golconda Cattle
company, of Nevada, of which William
E. Kent, Republican candidate for con
gress from the Second district of Cali
fornia. ia preaident. The charge ia il
legal fencing of government land.
Castro is Accused of Plot.
Teneriffe, Canary Island« A man
ifesto bearing 1,506 signature« and ac
cusing ex President Castro, of Vene
zuela, of organising a plot in the Can
aries againat the life of the present
Vcneiuelsn executive. Juan V. Gomes,
is being circulated here.
ALL PARTIES GIVEN SHARE.
Metropolitan Street Railway Impartial
in Campaign Gifts.
New York The admission that ev
ery corporation with which he had ever
been identified had not only contribut
ed to political campaign funds, but
had rontriliuted to the campaign fund
of "everybody that ever ran for office"
waa made on the stand by H. H. Vree
land, ex-president of the Metropolitan
Street Railway company.
Mr. Vrecland could only be made to
specify amounts for the year 1903.
During that year the corporation of
which he had then lieen president, the
Metropolitan Securities company, had
contributed <20,000 to <30,600 to the
Republican State committee and <17,-
006 to <18,000 to the Democratic State
committee. The company may have
also made campaign contributions lo
cally, but the witness waa not positive
on 'hat point.
Grandvillieres, France — President
Fallierea, aecompaneid by the presi
dent-elect of Brazil, Marshal Hermoe
Fonseca, Premier Briand and foreign
military attaches, witnessed the opera
tion of dirigibles in the army maneu
vers. Three dirigibles and six aero
planes, including those manned by
Latham and Paulhan, took prominent
part in the operation.
Thus far aeroplane« have given bet
ter results than the dirigiblea, which
for two day« were prevented from
leaving their station« by high wind«.
Army officers are enthuaiaatic over the
reoulte.
General Picqaart, commanding the
Second corps, and General Meunier,
commanding the Third corfia, each
morning before 7 o'clock were in
j>o«a«*aaion of an accurate description
of the location and movements of each
other s force«. Meunier outgeneraled
Picquart, succeding in turning the
latter's position.
New Island Rises in Sea.
Britain Told to Leave,
Seward, Alaska A new island waa
added to the Aleutian chain at the
same time that the towns of Unalaska
and Dutch Harbor were shaken by an
earthquake Septcmlwr 1. The island
rose from deep water, at a point where
‘ a sounding by the Geodetic survey last
I year showed 70 fathoms.
The islsnd
■ ia in the form of a great rounded hill,
very close to Perry Peak, the island
that rose last year and waa discovered
by officers of the revenue cutter Perry.
The revenue cutter Bear brought news
of thia discovery.
Geneva, Switzerland—The annua)
meeting of the permanent committee
of the Young Egypt party, the aim of
which is autonomy and which haa juat
open«! here, afforded an opportunity
of which aeverai Egyptian« availed
themselvea to attack
ex-President
Roosevelt because of hie sfieeches at
Khartoum and London.
Among the
epithets appli«i to the colonel were
'‘.n,,8"r blusterer" and "self-adver
tiser." The committee sent a tele-
gram to Ixindon demanding immediate
evacuation of Egypt by tne Britiah.
Eight Injured by Airship.
Drug Sale to Be Stopped.
Milwaukee Eight persona, five wo
men and three men, were more or less
seriously injured here when a Wriight
aeroplane, driven by Arthur Hosey,
swerv«i sidelong from its course and
plunged into a crowd before the grand
stand at the atete fair.
The aviator
waa uninjured. None of the injured
will die.
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Pittsburg— A country-wide cam
paign «gainst the illegitimate traffic
in narcotics and habit-forming drug«
began here when the National Asaocia-
tion of Retail Druggiata went on rec
ord aa favoring a national law along
these linea.
Plague Has Grip on Italy.
Rome, Sept. 17.—During
hours in the department of
Southeastern Italy, there
deaths from cholera and
caaea of the disease.
the last 24
Apulia, in
were five
nine new
Portugal Exiles Monks.
Lisbon - The monastery of the Span
ish Jesuit« at Aldeira-Ponte haa been
closed by a government decree, and the
Jesuits have been expelled from the
country.
They are warned that if
they return to Portugal they will be
arrested.
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