Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-30

Republican national headquarters
VIII be opened in eight states.
England is reported as having much
fear regarding the new balloon.
Strikers In Bombay. India. we're shot
down by British troops as result oI
riotous demonstrations.
Judge Grosscup In New York, says
that the recent decision In the Stand.
ard OIL case is practically flnal.
Governor Hughes In formal state.
ment expresses his willingness again
10 be candidate for governor OF New
York.
The Z. M. G. AS I,UoO-mile relay
race from New York ends In Chicago
eleven hours ahead of schedule.
Nicaragua and Honduras are about
TO become plunged In war. The rea.
son for this is the help given by Mica.
ragua to the Honduras revolutionists.
The Belgian authorities are greatly
alarmed over q rumor of plot to as.
sassinate King Leopold. Several an
- 'iioho DCGn aIItbleu.
Professor George A. Cox, theologlan
at Northwestern university. declares
that the trend of modern church teach.
ing is toward religious quackery.
The decision Of the Rock Island
lines to put on rate of / " cents for
n merchants meeting In Chicago, st
Louis and other cities In Rock Island
| tarritnrY prnnigaQ In f,,ir
lanche OF reduced rates. The Alton
system is preparing to grant similar
rates for fully score OF conventions
and small meetings In It's territory
Owners OF real and personal prop.
erty In the greater city of New York,
valued at $7,158. $780, 400, will contrib
ute sl16,117.320 to the support of the
city for the net fiscal year. The to.
tai budget as fixed by the board OF
aldermen shows that $143.572, ,266 viii
be required to meet the city's expenses
for the year. but portion Of this
sum will be raised through sources
other than direct taxation. It was
found necessary to raise slightly the
tax rate throughout the greater city
this year.
Insurance against visits By Cupid
or the stork is the purpose of an appli-
cation made to the state insurance de-
partment by party who wishes to
pay benefits In case of marriage or
birth. After much consideration the
perplexed commissioner has decided
that this case can be classified under
"rQQnaItv A. a
while the visit Of Cupid or the stork
might bring much Joy 1t might also
entail large expense and could there
fore be regarded as misfortune.
More than 1900 men have been sent
to the country districts by the free
labor bureau OF the New York Bowery
mission in response to the appeals OF
farmers for field laborers. The pc.
rennial cry Of farmers. coming from
the west particularly. that their crops
are threatened with destruction for
lack OF help, is being heard as usual
lack OF help. is being heard as usual
The Bowery mission started to relieve
the farmers by supplying help severa
months ago, and the number OF mer
being sent out Is constantly increas
Ing.
| Martin A. Knapp, chairman of ths
Interstate commerce commission OIL
Information he has received on rail
road conditions OF the country ex
presses the belief that there would bs
car shortage this fall. He says:
An the railroad men with whom
talk assure me that business Is get
ting better. Fewer and fewer carr
and locomotives are idle. When. aftel
the crop has been harvested. busines,
is once restored to normal there will
be an effort to make up for lost time
and then It will develop that durini
the period Of short revenues the road
have been scraping along on the small
est possible maintenance and repai
appropriations"
According to the New York Herald
In dispatch to the Denver Republic
an, laboring men are not flocking I,
Gompers. The paper says: 'InQuir.
today among the local labor leader
at Washington and In the shops, sho,
that Samuel Gompers, president O
the American Federation OF Latol
may be unable to control the labo
vote. which he hopes to deliver to Mi
Bryan. Only lukewarm sympathy
J found for MIR. G0mpers' utterances 1
the editorial for the August Federi
tionist. while many appear to believ
that Mr.. Gompers has overreache
himself in attempting 70 control th
labor vote. The consensus OF opinio
IN the shops is that each union ma
will consider the political situation h
dividually and east his vote for n
Taft or Ar. Bryaa. regardless q aAy