Evening star., 1908-01-18

| emigrants to return to Europe keeps up
| and the figures for January will show
| an enormous increase over the same
month last year. Already in seventeen
New York. as against 9,760 last year.
During the same period this year only
7.138 steerage passengers have arrived at
this port.
CHICAGO. January 1S.-Prof. Walter
D. Scott director of the physiological lab
| oratory in Northwestern University, is
collecting data on the psychology of
journalistic appeal To accomplish this
end he has sent out hundreds of circu-
| lars asking as many persons, What
dailies do you read and the reason for
your choice?'
HELENA. Mont, January 1s.-An inde-
pendent smelter at Helena. erected by
Montana mine owners, seems assured.
After perfecting organization yesterday to
be known as the Montana Mine Owners
Association. twelve leading mine opera
tors raised 100000, and one member, M.
l.. Hewitt, agreed to secure an additional
SIOO.0uO within one week for the erection
of the proposed smelter in this city.
NEW YORK. January 1s-saloonkeep-
ers in New York are still much excited
over the threatened raise of 81 barrel
| in the price of beer. although one promi-
| nent brewer has stated that there will be
| no increase A committee representing a
| thousand saloonkeepers called yesterday
at the headquarters of the Brewers AS
| sociation to make formal protest against
| any increase.
| NEW YORK, January 18-The national
| child labo- committee has just issued
| through the religious press of the coun-
try letter to pastors and churches re-
| questing the observance Of Saturday
January %. or Sunday. January 20, as
4 nhnr 60x II ct
Der of churches considered this subject
on Child Labor day.
| SEATTLE. Wash. January 1s-The
| revenue cutters Perry and Thetis left
| Seattle Thursday night to seek possible
survivors of the British ship Hatfield. be-
| lieved to be lost off the west coast OF
| Vancouver island. The two cutters were
Port Townsend upon receipt of the news
Of finding of wreckage from the Hat
| field.
| ROME, January lS.-king Victor EN-.
| manuel yesterday received in special audi.
ence the American ambassador, Lloyd G.
Griscom. who presented him with some
new American gold coins of ten and
| twenty dollar variety, sent by Presiden,
| Roosevelt personally to his majesty fol
his great collection of 10000 coins, one
OF the greatest In the world.
ADAMS Mass. January 1s.-Adams is
particularly proud of the family of Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Desautels of this city
and points to 1t as an example of anti
race suicide. There are sixteen children
, in the family. and with the exception o
two all of them live with their parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Desautels were married
twenty-eight years ago, when he wa:
itwenty-three years old and she wa!
twenty.
VICTORIA. b. c., January 1s.-Follow
ing the opening OF the legislature with tn,
usual ceremonies Thursday by Lieut.
Gov. Dunsmuir. Mr.. Hawthorthwaite
socialist member from Nanimo. endeavor
ed to introduce resolution calling for tn,
impeachment OF the lieutenant governor
for having disallowed the anti-Japanes,
legislation OF last session.
CHICAGO, January 1s.-Chicago pack
ers are selling gailstones at high price,
to the Japanese. What the subjects o
the mikado do with the queer produc
| OF Packingtown Is mystery, but the,
use great quantities and are willing L
pay any price demanded for them. III,
report Of the business. which had beer
kept trade secret as far as this cit,
is concerned. comes from the CANADIAN
trade commissioner at Yokohama.
| NEW YORK. January 1S.-The will o
| Peter Cummin, for many years presiden
of the Broadway Savings Institution VIII
died at the age of ninety. gives 500 600 t
the Presbyterian Hospital to endow Ii
perpetuity room or one or more bed
of the bank with which he was so lon
connected. OF his fortune, only $1,000
was left to relatives.