Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 30, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 January 1909 — Page 2

WALKERTONINDEPENDENT W. A. ENDLEY, Publisher WALKERTON. - INDIANA The latest “universal” language is called “Ido.” But does it? Cranberries and apples are up. You can’t keep a good thing down, somehow. There is going to be an airship trade journal published. Why not call it a fly-paper? A Chicago burglar stole several hundred dollars’ worth of soap. Cleane,' out the place, as it were. Now they want to put the probe into the cable trust. This is like really diving deep into trust secrets. America lacks poets, says a French critic. What do you know about that? Why, we’re overstocked. Mr. Pierpont Morgan has 30 shelves full of Bibles, but it is not believed that he will be able to corner the supply. King Edward orders that “God Save the King” be played in quicker tempo hereafter. He appears impatient for salvation. Illinois woman hasn’t taken a drink of water for 40 years, and is in excellent health. Don’t cheer —she drinks buttermilk. Among those jumping all over the comic supplement is Prof. Brander Matthews, who can get all the fun he wants out of phony spelling. A Chicago paper has a story of a spook that ate a biscuit. We fear some one has been misleading an innocent and confiding reporter. Italian newspapers refer to America as “a nation of snobs.” And if we should retort by calling Italy “a nation of slobs” we suppose they’d get mad. Great Britain has just had one more fit on the subject of air navigation and it likes the thrill so much that it Is thinking of having them regularly. “Shall we annex Canada?” naively asks the Charleston News and Courier. That editor knew that he was beyond shooting distance from the dominion. I —. ~ There are 413 species of trees found within the limits of the United States, the wood of 16 of which when seasoned are so heavy as to sink in water. Admiral “Bob” Evans has squelched a proporition to give him a house in j California. His give and take are confined to the high seas and to time of battle. Canon Fleming handed over the whole of the money he received for copyright of certain sermons to the British Hospital for Incurables and the Gordon Boys’ home. An eminent geologist has given -.Fargifig^that the cpal^supply in the less than 50 years. It is about time to develop that substitute fuel. “In Maine a hunter was shot for a squirrel, in Wisconsin for a deer, and in Montana for a bear,” says the Philadelphia Inquirer. By and by the hunter will begin to imagine he’s a whole zoo. Now that society is taking up equal suffrage, it seems a little contradictory to make a stronghold of equal rights with men in a phase of life where women are practically dictators and autocrats. — The Harvard expedition has returned from its trip to hunt for Spanish gold. All of the treasure which they found has been invested in castles in Spain, and the hunt for the nimble, commonplace American dollar will for the present absorb the treasure-hunters’ energies. Simplified spelling has its advocates in France, for the minister of public instruction has lately ordered that the public schools shall teach the spelling of a number of words in the form recommended by the French academy. The reforms include the suppression of the “h” in words like “rhinoceros” and the substitution of “i” for “y” in such words as “analyze,” and of “f” for “ph” in “phenomene,” and similar 1 terms. Mr. Taft, in his address at the dedication of the prison-ship martyrs’ monument in Brooklyn the other day, dwelt on the heroism of the revolutionary patriots who endured the suffering on board the ships anchored in New York harbor rather than abandon the colonies and obtain comfort and freedom by enlisting in the British armies. It has been customary to dwell on the cruelty of the British in treating their prisoners inhumanly; but Mr. Taft wisely and truly called attention to the fact that these prisoners were dealt with in the way that was customary at that time. Prison reform is a modern philanthropy. A new form of insanity imported from Italy, it is said, has appeared in the South, due to eating meal from fermented corn. But the form of in- ’ sanity long known to be produced by “corn juice” is by no means a new I discovery. The bank check has taken small hold as yet upon the citizens of Mexi- i co, especially when amounts of less than SI,OOO are concerned. They consider it much easier to pay spot cash than to give a check for amounts of SSO and SIOO. I The ginger grown in Jamaica com- I mands more than double the price of any other. Under favorable conditions an acre will produce as much as 4,000 pounds. During the last fiscal year about 1,400,000 pounds was exported from that island. The registrar of records of the health department of New York city, finds that there is an increase in the death rate of women. He attributes it to the entrance by women into business fields formerly occupied exclusively by men.

NATION GIVES ITALY SBOO,OOO FOR RELIEF Congress Votes Munificent Sum at Request of President Roosevelt--St earner Chartered by Ambassador Griscom to Succor Victims.

Washington.—The voting of SBOO,OOO for the relief of the Italian earthquake sufferers was the quick and unanimous response Monday of congress to a message from President Roosevelt. The chief executive called attention to the awful disaster and the need of immediate assistance for the survivors, and in both senate and house the appropriation was made at once and without a dissenting voice. Only the fact that the national legislature was adjourned for the holiday recess when the earthquake occurred prevented earlier action although by the president’s directibn and with confidence of congressional approval supplies aboard the naval ships Celtic and Culgoa, intended for the battleship fleet, were diverted and ordered delivered as quickly as their speed capacity could take them to the scene of suffering and want. The money will be sent to Italy as needed, probably SIOO,OOO at a time. Relief Steamer Chartered. Rome. —Ambassador Griscom and ' the members of the American relief committee have signed a contract for the acquisition for two weeks of the Austrian Lloyd steamsnip Oceania. The steamer is of 6,000 tons and can accommodate 1,400 steerage and 100 first-class passengers. She is now being fitted out, and when eady 10,000 persons can be taken care of aboard for ten days. In addition, food supI plies will be distributed ashore to several thousand people. Ambassador Griscom Monday delivered to Count Taverua, head of the Italian Red Cross, $250,000 from the American Red Cross. Count Taverna ' was overwhelmed and said he would i make an exception to the rule which forbids the distribution of money i through any but Red Cross channels, i and returned to the ambassador $2,000 j which he had contributed to the exi penses of the relief ship. Ail the World Helps. Rome, —All the civilized world is ’ helping Italy in the tremendous task ' of caring for the survivors of the ■ fearful earthquake that devastated I Calabria and Sicily and destroyed about 200,000 lives. I The relief work is becoming sysI tematized, and food, clothing and medical supplies are being taken to the stricken districts by soldiers and others to the ’tiPstarved people. From countless cities of Europe and America money and supplies are being sent . £ In Rome. Mr. Griscom, the American ambassador, in order to be ready in case his suggestion as to the manner of conducting the American relief work for the earthquake sufferers is accepted, selected a committee of Americans here to which will be intrusted the w’ork of carrying out his plans. Mr. Griscom himself will be president of the committee, and its : other members will be George Page, | treasurer; Nelson Gay, secretary; i Samuel Parrish of New York, William j Hooper of Boston, and Lieut. Reginald I R. Belknap, naval attache to the Amer- ( ican embassy. Dr. Bastianelli, the phy- ■ sician to the royal household, will also act with the committee. If Mr. Griscom is provided with $150,000 the committee will be able to ! charter a large steamer, equip it with j nurses, doctors and supplies of all . kinds and keep it running as a hospital i and relief ship for two weeks between i the stricken cities in the south and | those points where refugees can be re- | ceived and accommodated. Griscom’s Plan Praised. Italians who have heard of the plan ।of the American ambassador proj nounced it a most praiseworthy one ! and a practical way of showing the j spirit of charity and sympathy of I Americans toward Italy in this hour | of need. Count Taverna, president of the j Italian Red Cross society, to whom Ambassador Griscom presented $70,000 from the American Red Cross, said the project was one to be greatly com- । mended and he expressed the most j grateful sentiments toward America and Americans for the aid they had sent and are still sending. America Leads in Aid. The United States is far ahead of other nations in the relief work. Sunday Ambassador Griscom succeeded in finding an Austrian Lloyd steamer of 8,000 tons capable of carrying 1,200 passengers. He chartered the steamer for two weeks and it was loaded with medical supplies and provisions. This will cost $50,000. It was expected that the steamer would sail from Civ- | ita Vecchia about fifty miles from Rome, on Thursday. It will be placed I under the orders of the Italian gov- : ernment. In addition to supplies, the Amerii can relief vessel will embark six doci tors and 20 male and female nurses, i three of the latter being American । girls from New York who volunteered ■ their services. American energy has ! been strongly manifested in the work looking to the relief of the earthquake sufferers. Ambassador Griscom and | the members of the committee have

Steven's Slayer Gets 25 Years. San Francisco. —In Whan Chang, the Korean who shot and killed Durham White Stevens in this city last March, was sentenced Monday to 25 years in the state penitentiary at San Quentin. Radicals Win in France. Paris. —A scrutiny of the results of i the elections held in France for mem- . bers of the chamber of deputies shows that the radicals and radical-socialists | have made gains of 15 seats.

assumed personal responsibility for the expenses of the expedition, relying upon the American public for funds. King and Queen Return. Having done all that it was possible to do in the districts laid waste by the earthquake, the king and queen of Italy have returned to Rome. They have spent the last four days among the ruins of Sicily and Calabria, the king directing the work of rescue and relief and the queen ministering to the injured. There is a feeling of relief in Italy that their majesties have come home. In a dispatch from Messina to Premier Giolltti, the king said: “To-day I visited the Calabrian coast south of Reggio. I found Pellario literally destroyed, but Meiito seems to have been but slightly damaged. “It has stopped raining. At Messina the municipal archives were burned. Troops are arriving and little by little order is being restored and the public services re-established. I again recommend to you the Isolated villages on the Calabrian coast.” Guards Kill Looters. Both at Messina and Reggio the guards are having difficulty in protecting the survivors and the vast treasure in the ruined buildings from the bands of thieves that are swarming everywhere. It is reported that six Russian sailors have been shot by looters at Messina and that 16 criminals have been killed at the same place within 24 hours. Six hundred persons ! engaged in pillaging have been ar- I rested since Saturday. In an engage- ‘ ment at Reggio between the police and . bandits, two of the police were i killed. Reports still reach here of the continuance of earthshocks, some of which are of sufficient force to do fur- j ther great damage. According to these reports, new shocks Saturday at Pellario precipitated the entire population into the sea. including both the dead and living victims of the first quake. ; At Reggio the people are becoming more calm and aid to that city is now ; being systematically forwarded. Military zones have been established throughout Calabria. Hospitals Are Made Ready. Great advance has been made in the preparations for the relief work in connection with the bringing of sufferers from the devastated districts. j The hospital which is being prepared -V**—n will rnnUUn 300 i attendanO^jUta^ wHI by sisters and nurses. The pope has undertaken the entire expense of the charity. The Press club has also opened a hospital, while many ladies of the aristocracy will receive in their private houses a certain number of the •wounded. Princess Borghese is the leader of the latter movement and she has had transformed three large rooms in her palace into an infirmary. Number of Injured Removed. Funeral masses for the victims were celebrated in the churches of Rome Sunday. Official figures give the number of injured transported from the earthquake zone to various ports up to Saturday by the Italian warships as 10,370: by the British warships. 1.209: by the German, 900, and by the Russian, 880. A censorship has been established at the important points in the south and the foreign correspondents are being greatly hampered in the forwarding of their dispatches. The censorship is seriously affecting both tele graphic and telephonic communication. Stromboli Island Shaken. Naples.—The Herald correspondent at Stromboli telegraphs that at 5:22 o'clock Sunday morning there was a strong undulatory earthquake from north to southwest and from east to northeast. The shock lasted 32 seconds. At the same time the volcano began to send out streams of lava, accompanied by prolonged subterranean explosions. Many houses were damaged seriously, some being rendered uninhabitable. There was a terrible panic, the inhabitants abandoning their houses in spite of the intense cold. There were, however, no victims. A telegram sent by the prefect of Messina to the minister of the interior stated that the number of victims in Messina would number -4^^444nf the total population—that is 120,000. In fact, the most pessimistic estimates of the disaster turn out to be far below the truth. Red Cross Cables SIOO,OOO More. Washington.—ln response to the suggestion of the Italian Red Cross society that a vessel might be loaded at Genoa with provisions and sent to the scene of the earthquake disaster, thus giving quick relief to the destitute, the American National Red Cross Sunday night cabled SIOO,OOO with the suggestion that It could be used by the Italian Red Cross society for the purpose of fitting out a ship with provisions and medical supplies. This amount is in addition to the SIOO,OOO and the $70,000 previously sent by the American Red Cross.

Porto Rico a Territory. Washington.—That Porto Rico is a territory within the meaning of the federal extradition statutes was in effect declared Monday by the supreme court of the United States in deciding the case of Abraham Kopel. Operation on Castro. Berlin.—Former President Castro of Venezuela was operated upon in this city Monday by Dr. Israel, the German specialist, for kidney complaint. He is doing well.

t THE GREAT CONSERVATOR. •I I ' f/ A V Atu Worth /I (L .'I I wS fl fa IS • ***** The Preside? * Has Invited Canada and Mexico to Join in a Conference on the Conserva ton of the Natural Resources of the North American Continent.—News lt< m -

FLEET ENTERS SUEZ CANAL BATTLESHIPS BEGIN THE PASSAGE THROi ->GH CHANNEL. Egyptian Visit C Short by Italian Disaster—Suppl K Ships Sent Ahead with Aid for Victims. Suez—The Un ted States Atlantic battleship fleet, c ompleting two days ahead of its sche dul® next do the 1 longest run of its world-girdling cruise, arrived here Sui day morning from Colombo, a disll ace 3.440 knots. . from which plac 9 th® fl®®t sailed on December 20. The stately art battleships was an impressive Bight. The weather was splendid and the bay was crowded I with craft, the JJCupants of which gave an enthusi, B H C welcome to the ships. Despite th ! °ng trip, the warI ships looked as smart and trim as though turned 01 it for a naval review. Universal regr *t was expressed here that the visit of he battleships was so brief. A conting ’ n t of 500 officers and men left by spe< train for Cairo in the i^ternoon. The converted cruiser \ankton entered the canal Sunday afternoon and | the supply ship ■ -ulgoa passed in Sunday night. The former has a numl>er lof doctors abop-.d and the latter a j large supply o! Provisions and stores. Both will go to lessina at full speed. All arrangement were made by wire■r— .w' -- -Wji. * C ' r ar Said, where 25.000 tons are 4 ore ^ The anthoriti^ j ma( j e arrange^ ments for the ^battleships to have right of way iox R dear run through the canal. The Connect Vermont, Kansas and Minnesota Entered the canal at six o clock Momky morning and arrived at Port a ( ten o ' c ] O ck Monda\ night. The secon( j g rO up. consisting of the Ix>uisj aua Kentucky, Ohio. Missouri and Virginia entered Tuesday. and the th rt j jj n e. composed of the Wisconsin, ^earsarge. New Jersey, Rhode Island. Georgia and Nebraska. will Ss art Wednesday. At Port Said the cr^.g coa j t h e tieships with all ( p OSS ij)]e speed, so as to be in position! | O g O q U i c iGy to Messina if it is finaljiy determined to send them there. Chinese Asj^ for protection. Port Fownst n d ( Wash.—Alleging that their race 1, being made the victims of unproAOkgd and brutal assaults at the hands of s o ]diers from the artillery forts of the p U g et Sound district, । Chinese mercht in j s an d prominent members of the ] oca j celestial colony have petitioned '>the Chinese consul general at San Francisco for relief. These C hinese « sser t that within the past few days so lr unprovoked attacks by soldiers on unoffending Chinese have occurred, t ne o f ^e victims being seriously inj ^d Saved from p r j son by Death. Media, Pa.—] vmiam L. Mathues, former state tr !asurer o f Pennsylvania, died suddei jy j ate Wednesdav at : his home here, ged 46 years The ! cause of death v ag gj ven by his phvsician as pneumoi > a> but it is generally believed that th illness was superinduced by Mr. tvfathues’ tribulations -- tht upon him by the i HarrVi^ • gra ft cages and his recent swi*!^ r~two ‘yei^rs in the penitentiary sot g p art j n t h e a j] ege d conspiracy agar. the state Appear in <o s t ume . Nabbed. New Aork. I pursuance of their 1 policy of closel wa t c hing the characj ter of acts piet ted at Sunday performances in tli vau deville houses, the police Sunda arres t e d several performers at the . ca u e d ••Sunday concerts. At Hr umerstein’s Victoria theater four W ere taken into custody following 1 e j r p resen t a tion of a schoolroom sket h The acfing man . ager of the the i er , Aaron Kessler, was also arrestt At the Tha n a theater two actress? charged with singing in costume^* arrested. Warner Bfj ins Thir d Term. Lansing, Mi< —chief Justice Blair of the supreme >urt Friday j n the executive office ca pitol administered the. oat^ o fh ce to the new I state officials, ' a(Jed by Gov Fred M Warner, who , an b j s third term as governor ofj state Southe Authoress Dies. New Orlea -Mary Evelyn Moore Davis, a poj SO uthern authoress ; and wife of Thomas Edward Da- ' vis, editor o Picayune, died here I Friday.

TROUBLE IN BANANA BELT? Rumor That Nicaraguan Army Is Marching on Honduras. Now Orleans.—The Tiines-Democrat publishes a story based on reports received from Central America which are to this effect: "Nicaragua is marching troops from the frontier into the vicinity of Choluteca, Honduras, to overthrow the government of Miguel Davila, president !of Honduras. It is reported that the I Nicaraguan, Dr, Arrias, has recently | received almost $40,000 in army sup- । plies, medicines, etc., shipped by secret agents of Zelaya in this city, and that all preparations are being made for a long campaign." Washington.—Reports of expeditionary movements in Central America have led to a close watch of the situation by the Washington government, ami acting under orders from the navy department at the request of Secretary Root the gunboat Dubuque Sunday sailed from Havana for Blueflelds. Her presence in the neighborhood of Nicaraguan territory will have a reassuring effect in the event that any trouble occurs in that section. i WRIGHT SMASHES AERO RECORD. In France Aviator Stays in the Air Two Hours and Nine Minutes. Le Mans. France. — Wilbur Wright, the American aeropianist, beat all pre<kJTlS lieitq l.m»—t—. ~!■• here yus-..-iiiuj arrnrnoon with a magnificent flight that lasted for two hours and nine minutes. He covered officially a distance of 73 miles, but as a matter of fact, counting the wide curves, he made over 90 miles. Mr. Wright's feat was the more remarkable because of the intense cold. After breaking the record Mr. Wright went aloft again with M. Barthou as a passenger. Le Mans.—Wilbur Wright made another long flight Wednesday, remaining in the air for one hour, 52 minutes and 40 seconds and covering a distance of 60 miles. He was obliged to stop on account of the intense cold. Both he and his machine were covered with ice. VETERAN FINANCIER IS DEAD. Anson R. Flower of Watertown, N. Y., Passes Away Suddenly. Watertown, N. Y.—Anson R. Flower, aged 66. special partner of the firm of Flower & Co., bankers of New York, died suddenly at his home in this city at noon Sunday. Mr. Flower had been in ill-health for eight weeks, suffering from heart trouble and complications, but of late had shown considerable improvement and the end came without warning. The announcement of Mr. Flower’s death came as a severe shock to this city, where his benefactions have been numerous. Big Fire in Skowhegan, Me. Skowhegan, Me.—Fire destroyed two and damaged three business blocks, and burned five tenement houses on Water street in the heart of the town, early Friday. Two of the houses were dynamited to check the progress of the flames, and it was only after eight hours' work that the local department, assisted by apparatus from Waterville and Fairfield, succeeded in bringing the fire under control. The loss is estimated at about $400,000. Funeral of Father John. Cronstadt. —The body of Father John of Cronstadt was transferred Sunday to Saint Andrews' cathedral through streets lined with mourners. At the funeral service and during the period when the body lay in state, there were scenes of hysterical grief among the thousands of the dead priest’s followers, numbers of whom, unable to afford sleighs, had walked five miles over ice from Oraniendaum and waited for ten hours in the cold to attend the services. The body will be interred at St. Petersburg. Masked Highwaymen Caught. Tulsa. Okla. —The two masked highwaymen who held up 25 men near Tulsa Thursday night, were captured I early Friday. The robbers proved to j be Hershall Wolfe and Charles Haubaugh, young men of Tulsa. Dies in His Church Pew. New York. —Thomas Perkins, 69 years old. a member of the New York cotton exchange, died suddenly in his I pew in the Frist Presbyterian church, i Brooklyn, after making a speech at j the New Year’s services.

BUNKER IS k SUICIDE H. C. POTTER, JR., OF DETROIT, SHOOTS HIMSELF. WAS FINANCIAL LEADER Illness Is Held Responsible for His Act, as His Business Affair* Were in Excellent Condition. Detroit, Mich.—Henry C. Potter. Jr., 1 vice-president of the People’s State 1 i bank of this city, former secretary and ; treasurer of the Pere Marquette rail- I road and a prominent figure in finan- ( cial circles of Michigan, committed । suicide Monday in 1 e bathroom of his i residence at 666 Jefferson avenue by ' I shooting himself through the head, i He had been suffering from nervous ■ ; depression for a number of weeks following upon a heart trouble which had ' bothered him for months, and his family ami associates at the People's | State bank unite in declaring that it ; was his illness alone which was re- ; sponsible for his action. Vice-President George H. I^awson 1 of the bank made a statement for the > institution to the effect that there is not the slightest suspicion of any- । thing irregular in Mr. Potter s rela- , tions with the bank. President George I P. Russell supplemented this with the ! statement that Mr. Potter was worth ’ between $400,000 and $500,000 apd had j I no cause to worry over any financial I matters. All of his personal loans, | Mr. Russell said, were small and well , ; secured. A month ago Mr. Potter was found I unconscious in his bathroom with the I gas turned on. Hints of attempted suicide at that . time were scoffed at and it was said i that the gas had been turned on by accident when he was overcome by heart trouble. Mr. Potter leaves a widow and three sons. He was a son of Dr. H. C. Potter of Saginaw. Mich., one of the builders of the Pere Marquette railway, ami brother of the late William F. Potter, president, at the time of his death, of the Long Island railroad. WON'T REVIEW THE OIL CASE. Supreme Court Refuses to Grant Writ of Certiorari. Washington.—The $29,000,000 fne I case of the Standard Oil Company j will not be reviewed by the supreme ' court of the United States. The de- I cision of the court to this effect was 1 announced by Chief Justice Fu’.ler soon after the court convened Mon- ' day The case came to the court on a ; petition filed by the government f.sking the court in a petition for a writ ; of certiorari to order up the record in । the case for a review of the decision I of the United States circuit court of appeals for the Seventh circuit by ; which Judge Landis’ original decision ; imposing a firn' of $29,000,000 agsinst | the Standard Oil Company for accepting rebates from the railroad Com- ■ panics was reversed. AUSTRIA DEMANDS APOLOGY. Angered by Speech of the Servian Foreign Minister. Vienna. — The Austro-Hungarian government has instructed Count I Forgach de Chymes, the minister at I Belgrade, to demand an apology from i M. Milovanovics, the Servian foreign ! minister, for his anti-Austrian utter- I ances in a speech before the na ional I assembl.. on Saturday, it is believed ’ that if satisfaction is refused Count Forgach will be recalled. The situa- ; tion has thus suddenly assumed a ' grave character and the opinion is - held in Vienna that Servia is beat on war. ALLEGED GRAFTERS INDICTED. Pittsburg Grand Jury Acts and Speedy Hearings Are Likely. Pittsburg. Pa. —The seven councilmen accused of accepting bribes and conspiring to secure bribes, and the ! two former bankers accused of giving bribes, all of whom were arrested two weeks ago, upon complaint of the Voters’ League, were indicted late Monday by a grand jury. All of the accused gave bond soon after arrest and these bonds will stand until the court hearings. There is every indication that these hearings will be held almost immediately. Rebate Conviction Sustained. Washington.—By a divided court the supreme court of the United States Monday decided the rebate case j brought by the government against ■ the Chicago & Alton Railway ComI pany and Vice-President Faithorn and I Treasurer Wann of that company, in - । favor of the government. In the i : trial court the company and its offi- j cers were found guilty and a fine of ! $40,000 was imposed on the company, | and a fine of SIO,OOO each on Faithorn and Wann. The court of appeals sustained that verdict. Doctor and Chauffeur Killed. Philadelphia.—Dr. Edward R. Snad- j er. a prominent physician of this city, , ,an his negro chauffeur, John A. ' Bailey lost their lives Monday afternoon when an automobile in which they , were riding plunged over a 40-foot । ■ embankment in Fairmount park. Boiler Explosion Kills Two. Newcastle, Pa. —John Reed and j i Jesse Reynolds were killed when the ' I boiler of a sawmill at the Shenango ; Limestone Company's quarries, east i i of this city, exploded Monday. Last Daughter of Revolution Dies. Ithaca. N. Y. —Mrs. Harriet Estes, I who i said to have been the only surviving daughter of the revolution, died here Monday, aged S7 years Mrs. ■ ' Estes was born in Elbridge. N. Y.. the ; : daughter of James Dunham of the I ■ Fifth Connecticut regiment. Montana Officials Inaugurated. Helena. Mont.—The recently-elected i state officers were inducted iuto of- | fice at the capitol here Monday with * much ceremony and the eleventh ieg- [ islative assembly met.

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