Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 38, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 June 1908 — Page 2

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I903 JUNE 1908 Su o 7 14 21 28 e Mo Tu We Fr Sa 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 9 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 9 6 13 20 27 0 9 -Tv P. Q.P. M. (T I Q.N. M. .y 6th. ryHth. Vfl 21st,fa2jth. PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enliehtenment of the Many No Politics for Mitchell. John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers of America, has given out a letter declining to become a candidate for political office and indicating that he will become instead head of the trade agreement department of the National Civic Federation. The letter was addressed to John C. Harding, secretary of the political action committee of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and was called out by an endorsement by that body of Mr. Mitchell's tentative candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor of Illinois. Mr. Mitchell's work with the Civic Federation will Inrolve attempts to settle labor disputes without resort to strikes or lockouts. The position carries a salary of $G,000 a year. Mr. Mitchell says that he feels that he can be of more service to organized labor by trying to secure industrial peace than by being governor of Illinois. Awful Tornado in Spain. A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, says Two hundred and fifty people killed in the Megafouro district of Portugal and ISO sailors and fishermen drowned on the Portuguese and Spanish coast is believed to be the death toll of a fierce tornado tht.t ravaged the coasts and part of the Inland of those countries. The storm is still in progress, though Its fury has abated. It swept the peninsula with terrific havoc. Most of the shipping along the affected coa3t was destroyed, while inland crops and buildings were ruined and thousands of people rendered homeless. Reports of fatalities are coming in rapidly and the estimate of 500 may prove too email. The region affected Is populated for the most part by the poor people and their restitution threatens a famine. Relief measures are being planned. Quebec City Swept by Flames. Fanned by a high wind, a fire which broke out in Three Rivers, Que., In a Btabte was not checked until the greater part of the lower town, containing the business section of the city, had been consumed. Then, with the assistance of the firemen summoned by special trails from Montreal, Quebec, Sherbrook and Grand Mere, it was held In check. Almost every building of any consequence in that section of the city was destroyed, including the postoffice, the city hall, every hotel worthy of the name, with one exception, the fine building of the Hochelaga bank and most all of the leading stores. Over 300 buildings were burned. Stolen Mall Pouch Found. The registered mail pouch which contained $50,000 In money and $100,000 worth of diamonds and jewelry, stolen from a mall car at the union depot in Kansas City, Mo., on the night of June 6, was found by a switching crew in the railroad yard3 of the Rock Island Railroad Company In Kansas City, Kan. The pouch still contained a number of valuable articles -of jewelry, but four empty envelopes which had contained the $50,000 In currency showed that the thief had made good on the smaller part of his haul. Thieves Get $4,000 Worth of Jewelry. . Some time during the day, while the members of the family of Mrs. John A. Reitz, of Evansville, Ind., were away, thieves entered the home and stole $1,000 worth of diamonds. Among the articles taken was a diamond bracelet ralued at $2,400. The police have nc clew. Heat Caust of Railway Wreck. ' Twelve people were Injured when a Pullman car attached to train No. 41, west-bound, of the Rock Island railroad, turned turtle near Fourche, Ark. That the wheels struck a kink In the rails caused by the intense heat and left the track is the official explanation. Second Son Born to Spanish Queen. A son wa3 born to Queen Victoria, of Spain, Monday night." Queen Victoria, formerly Princess Ena, of Bat tenburg, and King Alfonso were married at Madrid ou May 31, 1906. Their first son was born on May 10, 1907. Acre of Berries Yields 84 Bushels. Henry KJrtley, a farmer living two miles east of Jasonville, Ind., shipped 672 gallons of strawberries grown on a patch of less than one acre. Chicagoan Killed by Tall. Earl W. McConoughey, 2.1 years old, who home is at Irving Park, Chicago, was 'tilled by a fall at Two Harbors Minn. He was a graduate of the Illinois University en-ine.-ring de nartment and had just accepted a . position , with the American Bridge Company. Two Injured in Car Hold-Up. Three men attemjMerl to rob . a street car conductor cn the outskirts of .Ww Orleans. As a result Henry O'Dell. one of the bandits, is wounded in the thip;!i and Ernest Reviere, the rcoJorman, is suffering from a similar injury. Sherman for Vice President. Congressman Jame S. Sherman of New York was nominated . for the vice presidency on the first ballot at the Republican national convention in Chicago Friday. ' Trust Company Closes Doors. The Lincoln Savings and Trust Company, a small concern of Philadeli-Lia, failed to open its doois for business Friday and Samuel M. Hynnnan, an attorney, was appointed receiver. The trust company failed about a year ago and resumed business three months later after reorganizing.

THREE ARE SHOT TO DEATH.

Climax of the Series of "Black Hand" Deed3 at New Orleans. Following a series of crimes attributed to "Black Hand" societies in the Italian quarter, three Italians were shot to death in New Orleans. It is said the men were killed as the result of an attempt to extort money from Pietro Giacona, a wealthy wine merchant. Giacona and his son told the police that these men frequently bought wine from them by the barrel and had refused to pay for it. According to their story, t!ie three forced them to ship a barrel to a point in Louisiana and returned early the next day and ordered them to prepare a meal. The elder Giacona feared trouble and hid a rifle near the table. When one of the visiting Italians drew a revolver and ordered them to band out money and valuables the elder Giacona answered with a shot. The man at whom he fired fell dead and the other two attempted to escape. One was killed before he had gone ten feet from the table. The other reached a staircase, only to receive a bullet in his brain. BANK PRESIDENT KILLS SELF. D. H. "Fawcett Commits Suicide at Aberdeen, O., on Eve of Arrest. As officers, carrying a warrant charging him with misappropriation of the funds of the Aberdeu Ranking Company, were breaking down the doors of his barricaded home in Aberdeen, Ohio, to place him under arrest, I). II. Fawcett, president of the bank, placed a revolver to his head and fired a bullet into his brain. Death was almost instantaneous. The warrant and the tragedy followed the appointment of V. A. List as receiver of the Aberdeen I'anking Company, which closed its doors several days ago. Fawcett organized the bank as a private concern about two years ago with a capitalization of $40,000. ' lK'poits were large. Fawcett came to Aberdeen from Webster, Va., where a son is in the banking business. He was 52 years old and leaves a wife, son and two daughters. I ELLS WOMAN; KILLS HIMSELF. Para Hand's Suicide Follows Murderous Attack with Iron Bar. A fa to hand known only as "August," who murderously attacked with an iron bar Mrs. Joseph McVey, the wife of a farmer living near Montgomery, N. Y., was found dying in a clump of bushes on the farm where he had bidden himself. He had cut his throat and wrists and his condition was such when he was found that he was beyond help. He was taken to the jail at Waiden and attended by a physician, but lived only a short time after being conveyed to the institution. Mrs. McVey is still in a critical condition. She has not recovered "consciousness since the attack vfas made upon her. t SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS MEET International Association Begins Its Sessions At Louisville. With addresses of welcome by official represent tives of the city and State the twelfth triennial convention of the International Sunday School Association began in Louisville Thursday at the armory. President J. J. MacLaren of Toronto responded in behalf of 2,000 delegates and twice that many visitors, representing a Sunday school membership of 1 0,000,000 in all parts of the world. The first session was occupied largely with memorial addresses for Rev. Dr. John Potts, former head of the international lesson committee. Chief among the speakers was Rev. A. C. Crews of Toronto, who had as his subject, "The Loved Son of Canada." BLACK HAND SEEN IN DEATH. Chicago Gang . Suspected in Murder of Brooklyn Man, Joseph Condinallo, a political leader in the Brooklyn Italian colony, was stabbed and shot to death by an unknown assassin in Coffey park, Richards and Varuna streets. The police believe his murder was the execution of a death sentence from a band of blackmailers with headquarters in Chicago. That robbery was not the motive for the murder was established when a gold watch and chain, several rings and other jewelry and $32 in cash were found in the victim's pockets. A letter dated Chicago and addressed in Italian to the dead .man, was also found. MANY INJURED BY TORNADO. Houses at Sioux City Torn to Pieces pud Occupants Are Sufferers. S?v.ral persons were injured, one perhaps fatally, and two houses and half a doze a Larns destroyed by a tornado which struck the eastern outskirts of Sioux City, Iowa. The residence of Mrs. Mattie Howe of Greenville was wrecked. The three persons in the house, Mrs. Howe, Charles Eakman, her nephew, and Charles Youhill, were badly injured. Mrs. Howe may die. The home of Fred Demaranvilie of Morningside was torn to pieces. Burial of Mrs. Ounness. The bodies of Mrs. Belle Gunness and four children, who lost their lives in the destruction of the Gunness hoi'se near La Porte, Ind., on April 28, wer. ordered by Coroner Mack turned over t the public executor, who has arranged tor shipment of the bodies to Chicago for burial in Forest Home cemetery, in accordance with a request made by Mrs. Gunness in her will. Mine Plant Is Dynamited. The plan: of the Royal Coal mines at Argentine, Ta.,' was destroyed by dynamite. The loss will exceed $20,000. In addition to the plant the coal tipple was wrecked and a large section of railroad track torn up. Windows in forty-six residences were shattered. For some time past labor troubles have been experienced at the mines. Flames Peril Twenty Families. Burglars broke into the Freeman tea and coffee store at SOI Wells street, Chicago, and accidentally set the structure on fire, nearly caused the death of twenty families. The members of two families were overcome by smoke, but Battalion Chief Seyferlieh and other firemen broke into their fiats and rescued them. Crane Company to Build. The Crane Company of Chicago, capitalized at $15,000,000, manufacturing brass valves, fittings, etc., is reported to have purchased thirty acres in Oakmont, a Pittsburg suburb, on which to erect a $1,000,000 plant. that will give employment to 2,000 men. New Parcels Post Compact. Postmaster General Meyer has concluded a postal convention with Italy whereby, beginning Aug. 1 next, merchandise may be sent by parcels post between the United States and Italy at the rate of 12 cents a j,xmnd up to eleven pounds. Ohio Town Struck by Storm. Tv women were seriously hurt and many buildings were damaged by a storm which struck Steubenville, Ohio, at 0:00 Friday evning. Three brick houses on High street were wrecked. Hundreds of other houses were unroofed or otherwise damaged. Tbe.Fofre Tin Works was unroofed. Iowa Populists Nominate. The People's party of Iowa, in session at Des Moines, placed a complete State tioiet in the field and declared for a direct tax on "what you possess and not on what you consume."

WILL INVOICE NATION.

President Directs Tabulation of All Natural Resources of Country. An exact tabulation of the vast natural wealth of the United States is the latest task set by President Roosevelt for the experts of the nation. The President wishes a report on 'he subject by Jan. 1, 1001), preparatory to placing the information before Congress, and the executive committee of the national conservation commission, in session the other day in the rooms of the United States reclamation service in the federal building in Chicago, start ed the machinery for the herculean labor. The members of the commission, including America's foremost economists and geologists, will begin work on the collection of data immediately, in co-operation with the government departments at Washington and the commissions apiointed in the various States following the conference of Governors at the White House Maj- 13-1.1. The undertaking will be the most comprehensive and exhaustive study of America's resources ever attempted and will have as its aim President Roosevelt's wis'i, as conveyed in a message to the commission, to distribute the enjoyment of our natural wealth in such a way as to promote the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time." The work must be in shape by Dec. 1, when a meeting of the general commission will be held at the capitol in Washington to consider the results. This conference will be followed by another on Dec. 1.", when the entire personnel of the conservation commission and the Governors of nil the States or their representatives will be present. BOOM AND BIG CROPS. Roswell Miller Says that Conditions Indicate Business Revival. Roswell Miller, chairman of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, who has returned from a trip of insjection over the St. Paul extension to the Pacific coast, said: "With good crops, as seems probable, business should improve materially this autumn. Crops over our territory are looking exceptionally well. There has been somewhat too much rain and coM weather for corn, but this will not damage it if warm weather comes later. All small grains are in fine condition, and there will bo a very heavy crop." He ssid that the work on the extension is progressing so favorably that tracks will probably be laid over the entire line by the end of this year and that the St. Paul will be in a position to run trains to the Pacific by May, 1000. Already the road is in operation as far as Lombard, Mont. Contrary to the usual experience of new roads, the St. Paul extension, he declared, will be self-supporting from the beginning. DRYS" FLAN BIQ CONVENTION. Delegates at Columbus Meeting July 15 to Number 1,512. The program for the national Prohibition convention, which will be held in Columbus, Ohio, July 1." and 10, is being put into . definite shape by the committee on arrangements. ; On the night of the 14th the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association will hold its oratorical contest. State delegations are to meet at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of .the 14th. On the evening of the 15th, the opening of the convention, a mixed chorus of one hundred and fifty o' more voices will sing patriotic songs, Nunder the direction of Rev. C. M. Filraore of Indianapolis. There will be 1,512 delegates ia the convention. FIGHT FOR GIRL TEACHER. Relatives Tie Her with Ropes and Carry Her Home. Natives of the wilds along Stoney creek, in the hills of nouthern Ross county, Ohio, had a terrific battle over the possession of Mabel Bond, aged 18, a Rchool teacher. She had been boarding at the home of Deg Winchell. who wanted to keep her, since she "helped with the work." The girl's family wanted her to return home, but she refused. Her mother, two brothers and sister went to Winchell's home with ropes to get the girl. A terrific fight, irticipated in by the men and women, ensued. Some one hurled a brick at Winchell, which scalied him. The invading iarty secured the girl, tied her up, and carried her home, Winchell going to Ohillicothe to prosecute. HEIR TO MILLIONS STARVING. Asks Position as Dishwasher, Then Seeks Entrance to Workhouse. William T. Eiwen, who claims to be a graduate of the University of Vienna, and the son of a millionaire, staggered into a police station in St. Louis and asked to be sent to the workhouse, so he could get something to eat. Eiwen had just stood in a long line of applicants for a job as dishwasher in ji restaurant, and had failed to get the place. He said he had been emplo3ed In iron works at Hamilton, Ohio, and had been laid off at the time of the financial depression. Latei in the day an insurance man took an interest in Eiwen and said he would get work for him. Another Gunness Victim. Frank Itiedinger's name has been added to the list of victims of the' Gunness "murder farm" at Laporte, Ind., on receipt of a police rejort that no nun of that name lived in or near Lincoln, Neb. David Hicken of Ik-la field. Wis., had written that Riedinger iss alive and in Lincoln. The police report from Lincoln convinces Laporte's authorities that Riedinger is dead. Big Rats Overrun Village. The village of Great Bend, Pa., is besieged by armies cf immense rats and the residents of the place are at their wits' end. The rats come from a closed tannery, where they used to feed on the jefuse from the hides. They are nearly as large as the wharf rat, cats are afraid to tackle them, and they are killing chickens and even grown fowls. Congress of Temperance. A world's congress on temperance opened in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., the other day, commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the first temperance society. Resolutions were adopted asking the political party national conventions to declare in favor of amend ing the interstate law so that it cannot be used to nullify State excise laws. Powder Blast Kills Many. It is reported there was great loss of life in the explosion of a jiowder magazine at Pinola, Cal. The explosion occurred at the plant of the Vigorit Powdt Company. Hill Predicts Abundant Crops. James J. Hill, who is on his way t( Labrador for a hunting and fishing trip, while i:i New York predicted !ountiful crops this year despite the heavy rains. Texas School Bonds Invalid. The Texas Supreme Court dr.ided unconstitutional the law under which independent school districts have, for the past three jears, been issuing bonds for school houses and for general school purposes. The decision invalidates $3,000,000 worth of school bonds. Large Gift to Museum. E. D. Libbey, a prcminent manufacturer, has announced a gift of $105,000 to the Toledo (Ohio) art museum. This will enable the trustees to erect a new building, $50,000 additional being available through public subscriptions.

TSFf HIED FOB PRESIDENT BY REPUBLICANS

Nomination of Ohioan Amid Stirring Scenes in the National Convention. FIRST BALLOT BRINGS RESULT Platform Is Adopted and Speeches Are Made in Favor of Other "Favorite Sons." William II. Taft, of Ohio, is the noinli.ee of the Bepubiicau party for President of the Uuited States. The nomination was made cm the first ballot at the national convention late Thursday afternoon. The vote stood as follows : Taft 702 Km CS Hughes G7 Cannon 5S Fairbanks 1 40 La I o! let to 25 F iraker KI Roosevelt 3 TUESDAY. Chicago correspondence: Shortly after noon Tuesday Chairman Harry S. New of the national committee sw-u.; the ollici-.il gavel, and the fourteenth Republican national convention was in session. All had been well oiled for the moving along of the convention plans, and when the crowds got into the Coliseum nothing was wanting in the way of arrangements. Bishop Mu'.doon offered the prayer opening the convention, and then Senator Julius C. Burrows of Michigan was Introduced as temporary chairman. Early In the forenoon the crowds turned their faces Coli scum ward. An hour before the convention kwas called to order the terraced sides and galleries of the big building were filled with ticket holders. Usually the scenes Incident to the hour preceding the opening of a President-making conclave are as enthusing as many of the events taking place oil the stage r.fter the performance has been formally begun. There are the celebrities to receive cheering homage as they march into the hall at the head of State delegations. There Is the seemingly unending confusion out in the area where the Tres-Ident-makers are moving about before settling Into the reservations for the respective State delegations. Here's a United States Senator whose name is a household word talking to the Governor of a State who iierhaps already has been "mentioned" as a likely candidate for White House honors "next time." There they are, as you look down from your seat on terrace or in gallery, "conservatives" and "radicals" patriot and self-seeker, demagogue or statesman according to the standpoint of vhe faction to which you belong. Nowhere can they be seen all together In animated mixture except every four years ot the nitlonalparty convention. The streets reflected the nation. On every corner gamins hawked the papers of the- principal cities, in their cries going over the principal places of a great republic. The people who streamed up and down the thoroughfares wore badges which Indicated that every commonwealth from torrid Texas on the south to the States which border the Canadian provinces on the north, from New England on the cast to the coast States of the West, was represented adequately not only by the ubiquitous delegates but by correspondents and visitors as well. Shortly after 11 o'clock it was as If a floodgate had. been opened, for streams of people poured Into the great Coliseum nt every door and scrambled for their places. At the outside entrances the doorkeepers would have been svamicd except for the aid of po-' lice, who insisted that everyone f.nd their proper entrance. By 12 o'clock the floor was a black sea of humanity, while Michigan and Wabash avenues were crowded with overflows of people anxious to hear the shcuting and witness the entrance of celebrants. Thousands upon thousands of faces, wearing the most multi-varied expressions confident, anticipatory, excited, anxious, apprehensive, alert to sons the faintest breath that might mean possible defeat; tense, eager; old delegates behind masks of smiles, young delegates of huge importance, fussy alternates hoping for an opportunity; cheery contestants who were Heated, sullen ones who were not ; a sea of rippling movement. A brass band playing somewhere stirring tunes; delegates marching and banners lifting; crowds pouring in from the right, from the left, everywhere; whisperings, confidences, laughter, chatter, hubbub, and, as the clock hands passed noon, every eye focused upon the great platform, swathed in the tricolor, where a rugged figure, straugely unfamiliar without its wide-brimmed black hat, sat already playing with p gavel. "Crack!" A smart blow from that gavel; then another; and a little hush, as tense and still as if on the eve of some profound ceremony of worship or in the presence of a miracle. The Republican national convention had bettln. In the crowded human hive which had been made of the Coliseum, the fall of National Cba'rman Harry New's gavel was greeted with a roar which drowned all further efforts of the chairman for several minutes. Every seat

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nOGSEVHLT The abuse of wealtl. tb tyranny of power, and the evils of privilege ani favoritism have been put to Bcorn !y his simple, manly virtues of Justice and fair play. We pledge a continuance of the Hoosevelt po!kies. AXTI-INJlNcriON The Republican party will uphold the authority of the courts, but believes the ralea of procedure in Federal courts with respect to Injunctions should be more accurately defined by statute, and that no Injunction ßhould be Issued without notice. LAHOR The same wise policy will be pursued in every legitimate direction withla Federal authority to lighten the burdens and increase the happiness and advancement of all who toil. THE TARIFF The Republican party declares for a revision of tarifT by a special session of ConzreK immediately following .the inauguration of the next President. We ravor the establishment of maximum ana minimum rates to be administered by the President. MONEY An expanding commerce and increasing crop movements disclose the need of a more elastic and adaptable system. TRUSTS The Federal Government should have greater supervision and control over corporations engaged In Interstate commerce having the power t create monopolies. INLAND WATERWAYS We call for a large and comprehensive plan. Just to all portions of the country, to Improve the waterways, harbors, and great lakes. ARMY AND NAVY While the American people do not desire and will not provoke a war with any other country, we never, taeles8 declare our devotion to a policy which will keep this republic ready at all times to defend her traditional doctrines. GOOD ROADS We approye the efTorts of the Agricultural Department to make clear to the public the best methods of good road construction. NEGROES We demand equal Justice for all men without regard to race or color, and condemn all devices for the disfranchisement of the negro. REPUBLICAN TOLICY The diJrerence t between democracy and republicanism is I that one stands for vacillation and timid ity in government, the other for strength and purpose. Democracy would have the nation own the neonie. while republicanism J would have the people own the nation. kerchiefs and newspaiers, and otherwise urged each other Into greater transports of enthusiasm. THURSDAY. The convention was called to order by Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge shortly after 10 o'clock and opened with an invocation by Rev. John Wesley Hill, of Metropolitan Temple, New York. Senator Albert J. Hopkins of Illinois, chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, was then recognized and began to read the platform which that body had agreed uj)on after a long and bitter fight As the Senator read the doctrine ' settled upon by the Resolutions Com- , mlttee he raised frequent applause by i the laudation of President Roosevelt. The convention adopted the platform framed for It and defeated a minority report by a vote of 052 to 28. The platform was adopted after a three hours' debate and without a halt the convention swept on to the nomination of a presidential candidate. Tired, scorched, hungry and restless, the spectators , sat through the nominating speeches. Sweltering under the great roof of the Coliseum the crowd of 15,000 grew light-headed from the heat and became so lost to control while Gov. Hanly of Indiana was nominating Charles Warren Fairbanks, that Chairman Lodge had to threaten that the police would clear the galleries. On the call of States, Illinois was the first to be reached, having a "favorite son" Representative II. S. Boutell presented the name of Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Then Vice President Falrbauks and Governor Hughes wen? presented. Congressman Burton, of Ohio, took the platform at 2 :20 o'clock and placed the name of William How ard Taft before the convention, and afterw&rd the claims of Senator Knox and Senator La Follette were offered. The nomination of Taft was made amid wild enthusiasm. The great building rang with shouts as Ohio placed her favorite son' In nomination, and even greater applause marked the beginning of the vote. On the only ballot taken he received 702 votes out of 978 cast, two delegates out of the 980 making up the convention. The nomination was made unanimous on motion of Gen. Stewart L. Woodford of New York, i S ADDRESSING THE CONVENTION seconded by the delegation chairmen of all the other favorite son States. GAVEL TROSI FORT DEARBORN. Port of Historic Loe Used In Con- " atrnctlon of Stalle. A gavel made from an oak log of old Fort Dearborn was used to open the Republican national convention. For the manufacture of the gavel and its box two feet were cut off the end of an eightfoot log in the collection of the city's lepartment of municipal history. A silver plate on the box cover bears this legend: "Mae's of hand-hewn oak log from a blockhouse of old Fort Dearborn, the first outpost of civilization under the United States government in Chicago or vicinity in the old Northwest, 1S03 burned by the Indians and rebuilt ia 1810. Private Wire to RooeTelt. President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft received news from the convention hot over private wires which were worked direct from Chicago to the White House and War Department. In addition bulletins from the Associated Press were furnished them. Ticket I'rlcea Set Ilecorda. Convention tickets for sale at prices ranging from $10 up to $200 was a complaint of politicians and near friends of the assistant doorkeepers and other notables at the big gathering. Tickets were quoted at exorbitant figures at the hotels Monday, but few were found for sale. i , Rnah for Soavenira. Sending ßouvenirs home was the principal pastime of most of the delega.ea during the first day before and after the opening of the Republican convention. Post cards bearing pictures of hotels, the Coliseum, marcbinj scenes in Michigan boulevard, and gatherings in hotel lobbies, etc., were mailed by the thousands.

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New York Congressman Win Honor of Having Second Place on the Ticket. ALSO CHOSEN ON FIEST BALLOT Republican Convention, After Four Days, Completes Its Work and Adjourns. Chicago correspondence: Congressman James S. Sherman of New York was nominated for Vice President by the Republican national convention ut the Friday morning session. Timothy Woodruff of New York made the nominating speech, and "Uncle Joe" Cannon, Speaker of the National House, seconded the Sherman nomination. Delegates nnd spectators, tired after the strenuous efforts of the previous day, at the Republican national convention, were slow in assembling Friday morning, and when Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge rapped the convention to order for the start on the fourth day's session he faced hundreds of vacant chairs In the galleries and not a few delegates were absent. When the delegates entered the Coliseum to name a running mate to Secretary WilHam II. Taft it was practically settled that Congressman James S. Sherman of New Y'ork would get the nomination for the Vice Presidency. Conferences extending far into the night had made apparently appreciable progress toward clearing up the situation. New York State, In a caucus, had suddenly dropiK-d Its waiting attitude, buried the differences which bad kept the Empire State from being much of a factor in the convention, and pressed to'lhe forefront of the vice presidency situation with Its' solid strength of seventy-eight votes behind Congressman Sherrcan. With the elimination of Senator Dolllver and Governor Cummins, of Iowa, assurances of support for Sherman by several other States and general rcalI rati on of the pivotal value of New York's thirty-nine electoral votes gave this move on the part, of New York an importance instantly recognized by all the leaders. When the convention opened there was evident desire on the part of both delegates and officers to rush through the task remaining of nominating a Vice President, reading off the names of committees to notify the two nomlness and adjournment. Sherman was nominated and chosen on the first ballot, and the fourteenth Republican National convention, after a session of four days, had completed Its work. Food for (he School Cklldrea. Against the advice and desire of the regular charity organitations of New York, a special committee for tie relief of the starving pohool children on the crowded East Side has taken up the work of relieving Immediate distress by opening e free lunch room with the money contributed by the public Admission is by tickets which are distributed by the teachers, but the tickets are marked "Price 5 cents," and that price will be charged to those seeking admission, at the door. This is done to relieve tht children "from feeling that they are object of charity." The regular . charity workers insist that the condition of the children ou the East Side is no wors than in otter part of the city, and that it is the regular thing, , anyway. Supt. Maxwell of the city sdhools is ajain advocating hisv plan for public scbool meals at the public expense. The Central Federated Union appointed a committee to refri.st the idea of charity and insist on giving the poor a chance to work. Brewera Favor Temperance. - Defining temperance as "neither abuse nor disuse," the United States Brewers' Association ended its Milwaukee meeting with a platform of principles designed to correct jopular misconceptions of their position. It assorts that the brewers are ready to co-operate in the work cf reforming the retail trade, or the saloons, to the end that the saloon may become "a place for wbolesomi recreation and amusement." It repudiates the charge that the brewers are in politics to influence legis-' latioo for the protection of the disorderly saloon. It deplores the fact that both the prohibition and the anti-saloon movements aim a "the extermination of our business," and says that when the desire to better the trade takes the place of that aim the brewers will, as brothers, help and itay out of iolitics. Steel Trnat in Price Cnt. About fifty representatives of steel manufacturers met at Ne.v York and formally declared the expect ed cut in prices of finished steel products. Chairman Gary of llt si eel. trust announce 1 bat there bad been agreement to reduce billets from $23 2," a ton. structural iron from $1.70 a hundred to $1.C0, nnd other iroductJi similarly. The price of iron ore at th same time was cut 50 cents a ton. SPARKS FR02I THE WIRES. The clubhouse of the Buffalo Yacht Club, stationed at Point Abino, Buffalo, was burned. Loss $7,000. A labor pa jht is being started in tie interest of the organized workers of Lexington,' Frankfort and Covington, Ky. Seeing her sra stabbed by tier husband with a butcher's knife, Mrs. Caroline Campbell of East Ninetieth street. New York, rushed letween the combatants and received a knife thrust which caused her instant death. The husliand, Cornelius, is undr arrest. Frank E. Ferguson of Hägers. own, Md., has been appointed assistant director of the bureau of engraving and printing by Secretary Cortelyou. Water.'own, S. D claims to have under construction on contract, buildings to the value of $1.024.r00, half of which will be completed this summer. Part of the new wng of the ho'iiecpathic hospital being erected in Pittsburj collated. The damage is esJmattd at $100,000. Hetty Green, "the richest woman ir the world," has subscribed to a news-clipriag bureau to find out "what the papers say about her." The distributing depot of the Cincinnati Oil Works Company, at 520 Egglcston avenue, in that city, was burned, causing a loss of $50,000. Lieut. Frank T. Evans, son of "Fighting Bob," with the aid of a revolver rescued two "jackies" who tell into the hands of a gang of thugs in San Francisco. Freedom of religious thought was advocated in the opening sermon f the Western Unitarian conference, wlich held its fifty-sixth annual convention at the Church of the Messiah, in Chicago, and many addresses along the um? line were delivered during the meeting by prominent Unitarians from all over the country.