The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1908-03-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Big Fires at New York and Tampa
Fleet on Last Leg Of voyage-Tas
Reform Wins in France-Brown MS
willie Case Over.

barn burned and the loss was about
S2.G25,O0O. In Tampa eighteen bust
ness blocks we're burned over caus-
ing loss OF about 100000.
FLEET ON LAST LEG:-The great
American fleet has sailed from Cal
lao on the last leg OF it's long
voyage. It will reach It's destination
Magdolena Bay, near San Francisco,
about March lG
FRENCH TAX REFORM: - The
French Income Tax Bill, the most
radical tax reform measure introduced
anywhere in the world In recent
yearr. by which almost the whole bur.
fxien OF taxation will be shifted to the
rich. has won a victory In the Frehch
chamber when the principle Of the
bill was endorsed $50 to ii6. This
does not mean that the bill win pass
soon. but does show that Il has unex-
pectedly good chances
GUILT AT BROWNSVILLE: The
Senate Committee which has been in
vostigating the action OF the Presl-
dent In Diminishing from the Army
three companies Of negro soldiers for
shooting up the town OF Brownsville.
Texas. and for then shielding the
guilty men, has decided that he was
justified and that the men were guilty
az charged Foraker tried hard TO
have something rejecting on the
President put into the report but
was beaten two to one.
WILL RESIST CUT.-The danger
OF a serious dispute between the rail-
roads OF the country and their en-
ployes over vases Is increasing. and
there Is a possibility OF a strike az
fectlng 100000 men. Some OF the
roads and men have applied for ar
bitration but even this may not pre-
vent trouble. The railroads say they
have no money to pay high wages.
and the men claim that the roads
have made enough In the last few
years to afford TO keep up the pres
ent scale
NEW HEARST sCHEME;-w. II.
Hearst. who has been trying to make
himself power IN politics for
years. and has been busy for the
last three years forming a new party
which he can control, because he
can get nothing from tho older par
ties. Is now said 10 be planning TO
run Roosevelt for president on his
independence Party" ticket. or
course Roosevelt does not want TO
run. but Hearst will run him any
how. and he hopes by this plan TO
break up the Republican majority
which would otherwise stand behind
Taft
HUGHES FAILS AGAIN:-Gov.
Hughes has failed a second time in
his attempt to have the New York
legislature remove Otto Kelsey,
whom he accuses OF incompetence in
his office OF Superintendent OF lnsu-
rance.
ATTEMPT on sHAH;-An attempt
was made last Friday TO assassinate
\ the Shah of Persia, a bomb being
4 sh..,,,, ~ ~. .,,t,,.,ohff. Th..o ~
tendants were killed but the Shah was
not In the machine.
MACHINE FLIES wELL:-Fuller
reports OF tho flight in Paris OF Hen
ny Farman in flying machine hea-
vier than air, seem to prove that he
ag well as the Wright brothers. al
so Americans. has solved the problem
OF flight All these men say that
the trouble has been with the men
and not with the machines, and that
man can fly with almost anything
after he learns how. Farman flew
nearly a mile and won a prize Of
10000
KILLED BY AVALANCHE:- "A land
slide from one of the Alps Mountains
caused the destruction of a hotel in
Switzerland, the death Of 10 persons
and the injuries to 10 others.
CAPITOL TRIALS ENDING:-The
trials OF the Republican grafters who
built the new Capitol for Penn
sylvania and used the opportunity to
loot the state OF millions are now be-
ing completed, and all the testimony
has been heard. The arguments Will
take about week.
|. c. CASE REoPENED:-Th I'LL
nois Central Case. in which Harri-
man has beaten Fish, has been re-
opened by a stakeholder, who wants
the thing taken to the highest court
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