The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-01-20
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Prof. w. M. Wolfe of Logan, Utah, has GATED
O sensation in Mormon circles, as he has renorncpd
the Mormon faith and has severed his con- elton
with Brigham College, where he was profc> Of
theology.
A. L. Cuesta, head of the cigar manufacturing
firm of Cuesta, Rey & Co. Of Tampa, estimate that
the clear Havana cigar factories of Tampa will rn
out two hundred and thirty. million cigars this Year.
whether the Cuban crop is good or bad.
All the delegates of the Powers have reached a
geciras, and The conference will begin its sessions
to-day. There are signs of tension, and it is ,
that Germany will oppose only information
guarantee of the predominance of any one Power in
Morocco.
The motion of the attorneys for Mrs. Helen VIII
mans Post, who made motion to quash indictment
No. l76 returned against their client, was denied by
Judge Aleck Boarman in the United States Circuit
Court. The celebrated case will come up for tra
Monday next.
One of the German delegates to the conference at
Ageciras expressed the opinion that the sessions
would last two months and that the longer they
lasted the better would be the results obtained Rus
sian officials convinced that the future of Mo
rocco will be settled without serious difficulty
French bankers have decided to make short-timc
advance of $5O,0OO,OOO to Russia at IL per cent
interest plus per cent commission, the loan to be
guaranteed by the Russian state railroads and to
be reimbursed from the proceeds of the proposed
loan should the latter be foated within year.
Secretary Roots inquiries have brought out that
the delegates chosen for the Morocco conference
door" and equal trade privileges The rub will
over the question of whether the Powers will under
take to police Moroccos frontier let France do it
The Vatican has abandoned, for the moment, the
idea of presenting to- the Morocco conference at Al
geciras proposition for religious liberty in Morocco
1t fears repetition of what happened in the Madrid
conference of 1880, when similar proposition
not approved because it regarded as outside the
business Of the conference.
At Gainesville information has been received Of
the destruction by fire. at Fort Fannin, of the saw
mill, cOmmssary and warehouse owned by r. h.
Iison, the loss amounting to about $4,000. Mr..
Tson is said to be heavy loser, he carried but
a small amount of insurance. The plant was one
of the finest located along the Suwannee river
Macedonia is now considered internatonalizcd
territory almost entirely separated from the Turkish
empire. The French Government has issued vol.
luminous Yellow Book Macedonian affairs. show
ing that France pursued policy of conciating tn"
conflicting interests represented by the RussianNu'
trian group as against the liberal Powers Great
Britain ITALY and France.
At the meeting of the Georgia and Florida Saw.
mill Association held in Brunswick last Tuesday,
committee of nine appointed to meet February ]
with the railroad representatives at Old Point Com
fort and consider the demand that the companies
equip cars with movable stakes and binders. The
association will endeavor to have closer utilization
as to grading, inspection and prices.
Yew York is in danger of an epidemic of scar't
fever from an infected dairy near Binghamton, @.
cording to advices received from the State Board II
Health at Albany. The State Board has been n''
fled by Health Officer Xix of Binghamton that
from the infected dairy has already been shipp' o
New York. How long this has been going on i
yet known, nor by what road it is being delivc''
Women of the Municipal League at New 90"
City have Endorsed Lewis Stuyvesant Chan
charge of persecution and not prosecution" ~
District Attorneys Office by their decision t MAKE
campaign against irregularities in the admin
ing Of justice. Mr.. Chanler, lawyer, recently
in contempt of court made radical assertions IN "
address before the league at the City Club. He
indictments were returned on insufficient cause
maintained that when the District Attorney de'IL'
conviction he picked his jury and his Judge. -.
nocent people, he declared, were urged to plead gun