The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-02-10

declded TO recommend the installation board either
the South Carolina the Michigan the two new bat
tleships now being designed, of turbine machinery.
The question has been under consideration for some
time. 1t is probable that bidders will be invited to
offer their own designs for such machinery.
Following shocking disclosures as to his morals,
which led to two banks of which he was pres.
ident and the closing of one of them, Rev. George H.
Simmons, pastor of the First Baptist Church of
PEORIA Ill.,, killed himself by poison. For five years
the preacher-tnancer had been outwardly model of
virtue, and one of the most prominent leaders in
religious, financial and political life in the city.
Governor Broward was in Chicago this week.
where he had conference with Thomas w. Lawson
in regard to insurance matters. Governor Broward
will serve on the committee appointed by Mr.. Law.
son to receive the insurance proxies in the New York
Life and Mutual Life the other members being Cover.
nor Johnson of Minnesota, Senator LaFollette Of
Wisconsin and eXAttorney- General Monet of Ohio.
Rev. Joseph Murgas of the Slavonc Catholic
Church of Wkesbarre, Pa, who has invented new
system of aerial wireless telegraphy which is now
being adapted to practical use, has announced that
experiments in underground wireless telegraphy
which he had been conducting for some years. had
reached the stage when he could promise that it
would not be long before he sent a wireless under
ground telegraph message to Europe.
Billiard tables, heavy steel safes, desks, chairs
lounges, carpets cancelng machines ypewriters let
ter files bookcases, and dozens of other articles with
out regard to bulk or weight, shipped through
the United States mails at all times of the year.
cording to testimony given by Edwin c. Madden,
Third Assistant Postmaster General before the House
of this matter runs up into millions of pounds an
nually.
The statement is made in Washington by persons
who claim to know what is going on behind the
scenes that unless other Presidential candidates be-
stir themselves Vice President Fairbanks will at no
distant day have a sufficient number of delegates
pledged to him to make him most formidable can
didate for the Presidential nomination in 1908. Fair
banks has had the Presidential bee in his bonnet for
many years.
Frank Campbell, winner of the $4,000 prize for
guessing the exact attendance at the st. Louis Ex
position in 1904, is convict in the State peniten
tary of Nebraska who still has year to serve lie
comes from Webster County, where he was convicted
of embezzlement. Campbell will get only $4,000 of
the prize, he, fearing that he might have difficulty
in getting the money while imprisoned agreed to
pay lawyer half for getting it.
Army officers arriving at San Francisco on the
transport Logan report that the prospect of trouble
in China is the chief topic OF discussion in army cir
cles in Manila. The Thirteenth infantry and two
squadrons of the Eighth cavalry have received orders
to prepare for field service. Their officers have made
preparations to start twenty-fOur hours notice,
and they expect to be sent to Picking.
Much advice is received at the White House re-
garding the wedding of Miss Roosevelt and Mr..
Iongworth Little, il any, of it reaches the Presi
dent and the Roosevelt family but Secretary Loeb
finds the mail every morning filled with letters con-
tanning suggestions as to the wedding ceremonies,
and quite number from persons who opposed to
the use of wine at the wedding breakfast.
Forty cases against grocers and other dealers who
have sold aduterated food have been started in JUS
tice courts by the Illinois Pure Food Commission.
The charges were for the of formaldehyde in milk,
coloring distilled vinegar glucose and anilee dye in
Jelly and preserves, illegal navoring extracts and
fraudulent spices. Some of the best known manu-
facturers and jobbers in Chicago are named in the