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considering the challenge that is sure
TO come from the English Lawn Ten
mis- association must also be ,ttled.
New rules governing the plan in the
national championship at Newport are
also to be brought to the front, SO
that the winner of the tournament
will be obliged to meet the champion.
These things are all of great import.
and are likely to result.in the most
wordy meeting that American tennis
body has held in many years.
DETROIT. Mich. Feb. 13.-A large
and representative attendance is evil
dence of the general interest mani
fested in the international conference
on the subject of good roads. which
began its sessions in Detroit today.
The main object of the conference Is
TO discuss the proposed plan to con-
meet all the capitals and principal cit
les of the United States, Canada and
Mexico. by good roads, conforming in
this respect with the principal coun-
tries of Europe.
The project is already before con-
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Representative Brownlow of Tennes-
see. which provides that congress
shall appropriate s20.000,000, which
shall supplement moneys raised by
the various states for the building OF
the roads. Another question to be
discussed by the convention is that of
street roadbeds. and report of the
ton ,,f h, .ta
Gently constructed in New York City
will be presented for consideration.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Feb. 13.-
"DaP' Hawkins of California and Will
lie Fitzgerald of Brooklyn in six.
round bout. is the attraction provided
for Quaker City fight followers to.
night. The two are regarded as even
ly matched and an interesting contest
is expected to be the outcome.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-The bodies
of the nine sailors of the battle ship
Massachusetts, who were killed by
the explosion of a twelve-inch gun re
Gently. arrived here today on board
the Collier Ajax.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Feb. Ia
When the anthracite commission ad.
journed this afternoon, after Clarence
barrow. the lawyer for the miners
had concluded his argument, review
of the testimony remained to be
made. The decision will be rendered
soon. binding upon the. miners and
operators for three years.
Attorney Darrow, before taking up
~.
namely, cause of strike violence, boy
cotting, scabs, eight-hour day, weigh
ing of coal, private police. evictions,
etc, paid his respects to President
Baer, saying:
"A good many of our troubles in
this world are due to mental condi-
ton. / have done my best since the
strike began to relieve the operators
of delusions under which they are Ia
boring. but | find on listening to to
Mr.. Baer's speech my efforts in most
directions seem to have been in vain"
Il want to say this strike from the
first to last was due to the blind, au-
tocratic and stupid spirit of these op-
orators that their men should not or
thought the men should not have
money, for | believe, strike or no
strike. the wages would have been
raised by this time"
Two of the strong points Attorney
Darrow made in his speech today be-
fore the commission, were direct as
sertions. He said:
ssrrba coal harnpc cnirld have ad.
verted the anthracite strike by treat
ing the men like human beings. The
wages earned by the miners average
only three hundred and thirty dollars
year. and Baer's proposition will not
be accepted, for it means practically
no increase in wages"
LEXINGTON, KY, Feb. 13-The
finding of saws in newspapers foiled
plot by which Claude O'Brien and
william Mccarthy, convicted of muir
der, had planned for escape. with
Earl Whitney. an alleged accomplice
of O'Brien's.
CONCORD, N. H., Feb. 13.-An or
der was recently received from Lady
Victoria Murray, daughter of Lord
Dunmore, for a corner stone, which
is to be used in a new church edifice
to be erected at Manchester. England.
The stone comes from the famous
quarries of the New England Granite
company. which furnished the granite
for the Congressional library building
in Washington. The growth of the
church at Manchester has been re-
markable. Lady Victoria Murray was
called there something less than four
years ago, and through her efforts
there has grown up a movement
which is now about to build the first
church of the Christian Science de-
nomination outside of America. The
church is to be a beautiful edifice of
Gothic character, and promises to be
one of the handsomest structures in
the city.
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