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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

Motormaniacs is just what the name in
dicates. 1t hits the season and the reign
ing fad with those who have well-filled
pocket books) in the bullseye. The au-
thor, Lloyd Osbourne, has hit up a rapid
pace for his maniacs, so that the reader
to keep up with them has an exhilarating
experience.
Two other books in the list are Enchant-
ment and The Princess Elopes, by Harold
MacGrath. Mr.. MacGrath Is a very in
genious creator of situations, and the
stock of his material seems to be large.
Certainly he tells some funny stories In
'Enchantment." 1.-The Princess Elopes" Is
one story 1t has already been noticed in
this column.
The Bobbs- Merrill company, indianapolis.
To
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

If Governor Pennypacker Of Pennsyl-
vania will cast his eyes toward servia he
will see that great and good man, Peter
Karageorgevitch, struggling with an Gin
sane and perverted press
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25
WHAT CITIES ARE DOING

Municipal ownership comparisons are
teaching America many things about how
Great Britain Is governed. The United
Kingdom appears to have manhood suf-
frage and democratic government, but, as
matter Of fact, the country Is governed
by the ratepayers who have delegated
nearly all their powers to certain legisla-
tive assemblies, the parliament, the
county and town councils, parish and
school boards. These appoint all the ex-
ecutive officers Of the kingdom. The
voter has his say about the election of
members Of these assemblies, but there
his responsibility ends. Instead Of vot-
Ing for from sixty to eighty officials he
votes for one. Instead Of renewing tho
legislature periodically, he renewssasit
whenever an appeal to the country is
made. Instead Of having four months
campaign to tear up business, Britain
sweeps away one parliament and elects
another in from two to four weeks. There
is little politics in municipal affairs, be-
cause there Is little chance for it. The
town voters are rate or rent-payers,
whether men or women and the corner
loafers and transients do not run the
towns. ..
The city of Oakland, Cal. defeated by
small majority proposition to bond the
town for $5,700,0O0 for waterworks.
President Orr of the New York Rapid
Transit commission has promised the
ownership league a hearing before any
more subway franchises are granted. The
commission has approved routes for adj
ditional subways under Third avenue,
Seventh avenue and Lexington avenue.
The construction Of these roads will cost
| SIC, 600, 900. 81
Edinburgh, Scotland, built its own ca
| BILE line and leased it to company on
| the basis of per cent of the cost, Dor
! rowing the money at per cent. The
company has lost money and the city has
| it financed so that the rentals will pay
| for the construction in thirty years. The
| only drawback to the Edinburgh plan is
| that when the plant reverts 1t will be
practically out of date, and meanwhile
the Scotch capital will get little or moth
ing in the way of improvements: 1t ap-
pears to have driven too sharp a bargain
with the operating company for it's own
good.
! Glasgow has a very drastic corrupt
practices act If candidate for the coun-
| Gil buys a voter a cigar or a drink he Is
by the act disqualified. II friend should
| hire a. carriage to take the voters to the
! polls the candidate is by that act dis
qualified, even tho he should know moth
1 ing of it. In Chicago it's different.
| The New York World has been adding
UP the number Of employees who would
be put upon the city payroll by munic-
| ipal ownership Of all utilities and finds
! So, OOO New York already has 81, 766 en-
| ployees, 50 that public ownership would
| Immediately double that number. There
| would be one person in the city employ
to every six voters. Some OF these are
women but they are all related to voters,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Permanence Of Employment.

a 4
What would be the probable result II
the following principle obtained in law:
Mr.. Jones is a machinist and works for
the manufacturing company. He has
been employed, say, ten years, done his
work well and Is employed by the day.
The money he has saved he has invested
in home in the vicinity Of the shop,
and Is a respected, honest citizen. For
some reason foreign to MI. Jones ability,
the employer chooses to replace him with,
we will suppose, a transient, and we
know, Of course, that Mr.. Jones has no
standing in court as a complainant
against his employer. What would be the
result, approximately, If Mr.. Jones, upon
the above cold facts, should have an in
terest in his job in the future that would
give him right to redress against the
employer? How would such a principle
affect relations in general?
Subscriber
He might have if he had contract,
but that would impose upon him the OBJ
legation to continue in the service Of his
employer during the life of the contract,
a1tho he might wish to leave. A legal
condition which would give the employee a
claim upon his job beyond the pleasure OF
his employer in the case Of the absence
of contract, would naturally call for a
corresponding legal claim upon the SER
vice of the employee, which most en-
ployees would resist as savoring too much
of wage slavery. But apart from and be-
yond any legal claim the employee might
have by reason of long and faithful SER
vice is the heavy moral obligation resting
upon the employer to continue the faith
full employee in service, even after his
days of highest usefulness have passed
And it generally happens that that OBJ
legation is recognized, altho the relation
which promotes such recognition Is some.
times destroyed by labor unlonism.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

If the Rogers crowd does not sue Law
son for libel, its standing before sthe
country is certainly no higher than Law
sons.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

ten by Jay Gould has been sold at auc-
ton for s525. It was the 1nanclers only
| contribution to literature, written when
he was 20 years old and entitled, "A His
| tory Of Delaware County and the Bor-
der Wars of New York" 1t was printed
| in 1856 Il. ...... =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

AMONG MODERN MASTERS OF Pull
PIT ISCOURSE.-William Cleaver Will
kinson of. the University of Chicago has
prepared book of appreclations and
criticisms of Modern Masters OF Pulpit
Discourse. The masters" as Professor
Wilkinson lists them, include such men
as Beecher Talmage, Storrs, Phillips
Brooks, Alexander McLaren, Sturgeon,
Liddon, Pere Felix, John Hall, Gunsaulus,
Bersier and several others. The pro
fessor's essays concerning these men and
their sermons, which are quoted literally
and always to the enlightment, not to say
edif1cation, of the reader, are plainly the
work Of one familiar with his subject
matter and able to present it in readable
form. The book Is Of value both to
preachers and laymen. zE
Funk & Wagnslls company, New York.
Al 40 NOT r..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

Kansas City has only about 275 auto
character Of the lode they do the work
of about a thousand and make the smell
of eleven thousand.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

The Boston Globe says: 1.-THE grass
is coming up fresh and green this
spring." Same old grass!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

Luther Burbank might do something
to the rhubarb in order to induce little
more of lit to appear in the pie
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25
ADJUSTMENTS
Foyer Chat,

oyer
Both performances Of the Games Boys
In Missouri" at the Bijou were we'll at
tended yesterday and the many sensa-
tional features OF, the play were well re-
ceived.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

The Rev Charles H. Parkhurst reluct
antly admits that New York is not the
rottenest city in the world, but claims
that Gotham is a close second to Phila-
delphia.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

The gang in Philadelphia has been
obliged to sick its law courts on the
people.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

Friday night at the Unique theater will
be devoted to the amateurs, as usual. APP
pl1catlons for the privilege Of appearing
can be made up to the rehearsal tomor-
row at 5 p.m 49, ---- - 7
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

Mr. Slason Thompson transportation
expert, has been compiling statistics to
show where the money goes. OF the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

E,ugene Debs has come forward with a
proposal to abolish the wage system.
That seems radical enough to quiet even
Chicago teamster.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

In ''Vivian's Papas'' James Bevins will
impersonate Board of Trade man who
Is made a fool Of by the arch and way
ward Vivian, impersonated by Caroline
Hull. The other papa" is played by
Thomas Burns. who created this part in
New York. Miss Hull is to appear In
''Vivian's Papas" at the Bijou next
week. @.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25
DIR. aRENEELL RETURNS NORTH

DR.. MILFORD, T. Grenfell, Of whose par
ish Norman Duncan has written q most
stimulating and interesting book, has re-
turned to his field in Newfoundland and
Labrador. During his stay in America
he received contributions amounting to
$4,000 for his work among the deep-sea
fishermen. No doubt much Of this was
given as a direct result Of the interest
created by Mr.. Duncan's book and by that
Of DR.. Grenfell himself.
| Cyrus Townsend Brady, the we'll known author,
has decided to keep the pulpit at Trinity church.,
Toledo, Ohio, which he filed temporarily. He
will remove his family from New York.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

1t has been discovered that the &c.,
100000 appropriated to fortify Port Arthur
was never used for that purpose. The
Russian Organization needed the
money.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

The city of Oakland, Cal. defeated by
a small majority proposition to bond the
town for $5,700,0O0 for waterworks. rA
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
WAS EXPLOSION PLANNED?
Belief That ConneIIsvilIe Disacter Wns
 Work of Fiend,

Connellsville, Pa, Sept. 10.-The scene of devastation in the vicinity of the site of the Rand powder works, which were destroyed by an explosion yesterday, beggars description. Men were at work to-day ploughing over and digging in the debris in the hope of finding more bodies.
 Occasionally an arm, shoulder or foot, or portion of charred bone was found, but it is likely that the bodies of the six missing will never be iden- tified. The dead bodies now recognized number twelve, while there are six un- identified.
 The bodies were viewed to-day by the coroner's jury. Someof the employees os the company believe that the explosion was planned. A man living on the mountain side chanced to be looking in the direction of the plant and saw the first explosian. He says:
 More quickly than I could tell you the other mills went off, one after the other, and am sure there was not a minute between the first explosion and the last one, showing plainly that fire from one could not have communicated with the others, as they were from 500 to 1,500 feet apart.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
ALARMING CONDITIONS
 PREVAIL AT BAKU
FIRING CONTINUES BUT SITUA- TIONIS SLOWLY GROW-
 ING BETTER.

Great Distress Follows the RiOting and
 Aid is ImplOred to Relieve the Suffer
 ing-NIany Armenian Villages Re-
 ported Wholly Wiped Out-RumoI
 That the Entire Tartar POpulatiOh
 Has Risen, Joined by Four Thousand
 Armed Kurds-St. Petersburg Hearz
 Good Neygs.
 Tiflis, Sept 10.-The governor of Baku reports that firing continued last night and to-day though in a lesser degree and that few were killed or wounded. The troops and police, he says, are still engaged in preventing incendiarism and pillaging. The director of the Techno- logical institute at Baku telegraphs saying We are starving and dying, |" and imploring the dispatch of necessi- ties.
 The worst news to-day comes from Zangezursh district, where it is TO- ported that many Armenian villages were wiped out and hundreds of per sons killed. Help is slow in reaching there owing to the distance from the military centers. The whole of the Tartar population has risen and been joined by 400O armed Kurds from the Persian bank of the Atlas river.
 The viceroy has protested to the Per sian authorities. General Shrinin has ordered the governor of Elizabethpol to investigate the truth of the accurate ness of these reports.
 It is reported that the Armenians and Tartars in Shush have become recon ciled; that the population has been dis armed, and that the foreign residents have returned to their homes.
 General Takishwiis telegraphs that the disorders are ceasing.
 St. Petersburg, Sept 10.--M. Pappe, the St. Petersburg representative of the Buku bourse. said to The Associated Press to-day that the situation at Baku continued to show distinct improve ment Telegrams received by M. Pappe to-day from the oil men report the steady arrival of troops, five further battalions having reached Baku, and the worst is believed to be over.
 Later reports show that in addition to the refineries in the black town district about 0 per cent of the oil property in the well district escaped. A lament able feature of the situation. according to M. Pappe, is the condition of the workmen, many of whom are without sufficient clothing and utterly desti- ute.
 It is officially reorted that all the British residents of Kaku are safe.
 The Riga and Orlov and the Baltic and Nikolai railroads have decided in consequence of the scarcity of naphtha to purchase large quantities of English coal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
CAPTAIN 4 SUICIDE.
Loss of Eight of His Crew Drove Him
 to Desperate Deed.

Booth Bay Harbor. Me. Sept. 1O.- The fishing schooner Ella J. King, Cap tain Lawson, arrived here to-day from the Georges Banks bearing eight men, members of the crew of the Boston fishing schooner Joseph H. Cromwell. The Cromwell arrived at Boston yester- day and reported that her commander, Captain Isaac Frazer, had committed suicide at sea and that eight men had been lost in the fog while fishing from dories.
 The fishermen were picked up last Wednesday about thirty miles south west of Seal Island. The men had been in their dories two days and a night without food. They will be sent to Boston by the collector of the port. Captain Frazer, who committed suicide after he learned that eight of, the men were missing, was a Nova Scotian.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
FOR RUSSIAN EDUCATION
CHAIR GRANTS HOME RULE TO UNIVERSITIES.

Resumption of the Country's Education
 Life VIII FolIow--Matters Have Been
 at standstiIl Since Last February--
 UIxase Fails to Grant Political De-
 mands for which students Have
 Pleaded.
 St. Petersburg, Sept, 11.-An imperial ukase is published this morning grant ing liberal measure of autonomy to the universities pending the elaboration of permanent regulations along the same lines This is considered here as insuring the opening of the universities september If and the resumption of the educational life of Russia, which has been at a standstill, with all students and professors in the higher schools on strike, since February. sg $s 44gs.. The lkase places the election of rec- tors and, deans of the universities, who have hitherto been appointed by the minister of education and were regard ed as representatives of the hated bu-s reauoratic class, in the hands of the university professors, thereby making these officials truly representative of university life.
 The duty of seeing that academy life follows normal and orderly course is entrusted by the ukase to professorial councils, to which has been conf1ded Jurisdiction over offenses by students. University inspectors, who formerly were considered as a sort of secret po- lice, are now responsible to the rectors, and not to the ministry, and a cause of many misunderstanding between the universities and the authorities has l thereby been removed.
 The ukase fails to give the right of assembly or to grant the other political demands for which the students have been agitating, but the placing of the government of the universities in the hands of the professors meets the prin- cipal grievances of the students in re- gard to purely academic conditions, as 1 the faculties and students are thor | oughly in sympathy with each other because of their common efforts to rem | edy the grievances. '... ~.- .'T
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
EMPEROR REDUCES DUTIES
AMERICAN PRODUCERS FA-
 TORED BY CHARS ORDER.

NJ. witte Notifies the President of His
 Maiesty's COncession--Our Manufac-
 turers Now Put on Level With Those
 of Other Countries-EchO of the Most
 Favored Nation Clause.
 Oyster Bay, Sept. 1O.---At the confer ence last night between President Roosevelt and the Russian peace en- voys M. Witte, by direction of the enl- peror of Russia, presented the presi- dent the following communications:
 Some years ago, in consequence of a misund of the interpretation of the most favored nation clause, there were established In Russia, on several articles of American produc- : ton, customs duties on higher scale than those levied on the same articles when imported from other countries.
 His majesty, the emperor of Russia, has commanded me to inform the pres ident of the United States that he has been pleased to order the 1iscontinu- ance of the levying of such higher du- ties on American products, in order that henceforth the American manu- facturers shall pay the same duties as importers from other countries"
 Washington, Sept. 1O.-As understood here, the customs duties referred to by M. Witte in his communication to the president, and which, by direction of the Russian emperor, have been re- duced, grew out of the imposition, in the early part of 1901, by this govern n1ent, of a differential duty on Russian sugar imported into the United States. Following this action of the United States was the issuance, in retaliation, of an order of the Russian minister of finance, which became effective March g, 1901, imposing maximum duties on certain American articles, the increases ranging from 20 to 30 per cent Broad ly stated, these articles were cast iron wares manufactured of iron and steel, iron and steel boilers, tanks, bridges, pipes, etc., machinery, sewing ma chimes, meters, dynamos, portable en- zines, locomotives and locomotive cars, locomobiles and fire engines The con- troversy with Russia which involved the imposition by the United States of countervailing duty on Russian sugar grew out of the allegation by American producers that Russia was paying 8 bounty to her sugar producers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
Cholera Aboard ship.

New York, Sept. 10.--The Hamburg American line steamer Moltke arrived to-day from Hamburg, Dover and Bou- logne with 49S cabin passengers. No steerage passengers were brought. Al case. of cholera broke out among Rus sian emigrants in Hamburg and all of the steerage passengers of the Moltke were immediately disembarked and held for observation. There was no ill., ness on board during the passage.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE
Terror Stricken Inhabitants of Gala
 bria Again In Peril.

Rome, Sept. 10.-Further slight earthquake shocks to-day caused addi- tional terror among the inflicted inhab- itants of CalaDria.
 The activity of Mount Vesuvius in creased, while the violent eruption of the ancient crater on the island of Stromboli is still in progress.
 Everywhere in the disturbed area the people are sleeping in the open air, even in places where the houses are safe The population appears to have been supplied by the catastrophe. The greatest caution is necessary in the search for victims, as the walls are continually falling. Soldiers, citizens and doctors are working heroically but they have to be frequently relieved be- cause of nervous breakdown resulting from the horrible sights encountered by them
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
BEST SHOTS.
Winners of Individual Matches ut Rifle
 Ranges.

Sea Girt, N J., Sept. 10.-The winners of the individual matches conducted under the auspices of the National Ri- fe association and of the New Jersey State Rifle association were announced to-day as follows: .. E..
 Spencer match, Captain William B. Martin, New Jersey; Reading match, Lieutenant H. L. Smith, New Jersey; New Jersey State Rifle association trophy match, Captain A. E. Wells, New York; Hayes match, Captain, Will liam B. Martin, New Jersey; schuetzen match, W. G. Hudson, New York; Kuser rapid-fire match, A. F.. Landerseck; disappearing target match, Lieutenant J. E. Stedge, United States army; con solation match, Lieutenant Simon, Ohio; allcomers' revolver match, Thom- as Anderson, Boston. c..'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
AN UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT
To Wipe Oak Street Off the City
 Man,

Antonio Mature and Michael Paulaito, two sons of sunny Italy, last evening, while under the influence." attempted to clean out Oak street. When the res- idents of that section objected the two Italians drew revolvers and forced the ohjectors to seek shelter in the various stores. The Italians then started to tear up fence on Gildey alley belong ing to James Wisely.
 At this point Officer Brown appeared and with the assistance of Sergeant Doherty succeeded in securing their acceptance to an invitation to spend the night at the lock up. They are charged with a general breach of the peace and injury to private property.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
Life Underwriters Meet.

Hartford, Sept 10.-The sixteenth an- nual convention of the National Asso- citation of Life Underwriters will be held in this city three days, bginning September 19. Prominent insurance men from many parts of the country will attend, and among those who will de- liver addresses are Governor Roberts, Mayor Henney and L. c. Slayton, pres ident of the association,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
5000 IN HIS POCKETS.
Body of Victim of saybrook Accident
 Not Yet Recovered.

saybrook, Sept. 1O.-The body of one of the two Italians who lost their lives by the sinking of a derrick at, the new Connecticut river bridge of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad last Tuesday was found this afternoon by Captain A. H. Perkins of Essex, eight miles from the scene of the acci- dent, The name of the Italian is not known, but his number was seventeen of the bridge gang. s.s
 The other victim of the peculiar acci- dent, in which the huge derrick turned turtle, had $500 in his clothes when he was drowned, but when the derrick was raised the body probably floated out in the sound.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
Died in Convent.

Meriden, Sept. 10,--slster Mary de Montfort aged forty-one, died from a stroke of apoplexy at St. Rridget's con- vent this morning, while apparently in good health. She was known in the world as Miss Mary Claffey, and came to the convent fifteen years ago from Hartford. 2s5 E.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-11
Death Rate Increasing,

New Orleans, Sept. 1O.-The yellow fever record up to 6 o'clock tonight follows: New cases to-day, 27; total 2,2s9; deaths to-day, T; total to date, S16; new foci to-day, Il; cases under treatment, 296; cases discharged, 1,677,