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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-01-21
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PERSONAL NOTES |

IT. G. Lolless is i'll at his home On
Tper Washington avenue with an at
tack Of Ia grippe.
Mrs. Rich Is i'll at the home Of her
daughter Mrs r. D. Windrom on
Twenty-flrst street.
John G. Gholson remains very i'll at
st. Mary's Infrmary with an attack Of
typhoid-malarial fever.
Frank d. Longenecker of Robinson
Ill, is the guest of his sister. Mrs.
v, ctscoenibs Of 3115 Washington ave
nue..
Odie Wells formerly Of Barlow KY
has returned from visit at points in
the east and will accept position In
Cairo
INT. i Roberts OF Memphis is in the
city on business connected with the
local plant Of the Roberts Cotton
Seed Oil company.
Andrew Whitcamp. Jr., has taken q
position as night caller fer the Ilil-
nois Central railroad to succeed Roy
Hill. who has been promoted to day
dutVss .Aa
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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-01-21

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Extremes in Brazil.
Brazil has no middle class. There
are but two classes there-the rich
and the poor
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-01-21

Clarence Nichols who recently was
wounded in the hand by the accidental
discharge of his pistol. is improving
and has removed from St Mary's In
Urinary to his home on Cross street.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-01-21

DR.. Blake Harmon who has been
here visiting his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Horace A. Harmon Of Ninth street,
has decided TO locate In Cairo AMI
will have Offices at roc Commercial
avenue. Until recently Or. Harmon
has resided at Ladd, ILL.,, where he
practiced his profession.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-01-21

Mrs. John Lane and daughter
Gladys. of Mounds, We're in the city
yesterday en- route to their homo
from Wicklfffe where they wera
guests of Mrs Alb. Teer
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-01-21

Mrs, f. W Halliday and daughters
Misses Alice, Martha and LYDIA will
leave sunday fer their California
home at San Diego. They will be ac.
by Mrs Martha Trabus Of
Louisville, KY, sister of Mrs. Halli-
day who will be their guest for the
winter.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-20
FIVE YEARS FOR JOHN r. WALSH
Released on Supersedeas in $4,000
Bail by Judge Crosscup.

Chicago.-A new trial was denied
John R. Walsh, former president of
the Chicago National Bank, by Judge
Anderson, of the United States Dis
trict Court. Walsh was forthwith
sentenced to serve five years in the
Federal penitentiary at Fort Leaven-
worth.
1t was the general opinion that
counsel for the defense would cou-
sumo long time in arguing the mo-
tion for arrest of judgment, but after
Mr.. Hart had spoken for thirty min
utes the court interrupted him, say
ing:
Il think you may place those mat
tiers before the Court of Appeals, Mr..
Hart. You are making no showing
here"
Turning to the prisoner, Judge An
derson said
Mr.. Walsh, have you anything 20
say why l should not now pronounce
sentence upon your"
Walsh, without arising, shook his
head slightly, and the court said:
The character of the evidence and
the character of the crime of which
this defendant has been found guilty
call for extreme judgment. The facts
are, however, that this defendant is
seventy years old, and that mere i'm
prisonment is of itself so heavy a
punishment in a case of this kind
have concluded that the law will be
satisfied with the minimum penalty,
which is five years"
The court further directed that all
the counts in the indictment be served
concurrently, and further directed
that the defendant pay the entire cost
of the trial.
An application was Immediately
made to Judge Grosscup of the
United States Court of Appeals for a
supersedeas, which was granted, and
Walsh was released under bonds of
$4,000 pending the hearing of his
appeal
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-20
HALLS OF CONGRESS.

A resolution for an investigates :.
peonage in the South was adopted VI
Advocates of woman suffrage m.s.
arguments before Senate and Hon ss
committees. use
The bill increasing the nav =,
officers and enlisted men in the ar,' y.
was passed.
The Lodge bill to reorganizo ~.
consular service of the United States
passed the Senate. '''
Mr.. Perkins, of Pennsv,von,.
spoke in defense of the battleSh;s
cruise and advocated a liberal nav.,
policy. a'
The nomination of Lieutenant-cu
onel w. W. Wotherspoon to be Br;s.
adier-General was confirmed, seven
Senators voting against it. ~
The provision for increased nav =,
enlisted men was restored to tba
army bill, the item of $1,000 ,OO0 fo 0
joint maneuvres being stricken out
The House Committee on Nav.,
Affairs voted for the construction =,
two battleships, rejecting the Pras,
QC4I . IudI IOur ha
built.
The committee to investigate Rem.
resentative Lilley's charges of cor.
ruption in connection with the con.
tracts for submarine boats decided IN
hold public sessions.
The Senate passed bill authori,.
ing the entry under the Homestead
laws of 800 acres of land instead oi
100, as at present, when the land Il
arid and incapable of irrigation.
President Roosevelt is in favor q,
the enactment by Congress of a bin
regulating child labor in the District
of Columbia and the Territories. Il
the States fail to enact such laws.
On motion of Senator McEnernv
the Senate passed a bill appropriat.
ing $4,000 to provide a crypt in
the chapel of the Naval Academy az
a permanent resting place for the
body of John Paul Jones.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-20
FLEET TO VISIT AUSTRALIA.
To Sail From San Francisco on July
For Hawaii.

Washington, D. C.-Admiral Evans
battleship fleet, after leaving San
Francisco, will visit Hawaii, Samoa,
Melbourne and Sydney, Australia;
Philippines, and return to New York
by way of the Suez Canal
Secretary Metcalf announced the
future movements of the fleet after a
Cabinet meeting. 1t will leave San
Francisco on July for our Pacific
possessions" as Mr.. Metcalf styled it.
The vessels will first touch at Hawaii,
where they will coal. After that they
will go to Samoa, following this up
by visit to Australia, where they
will stop at Melbourne and Sydney,
the invitation of the Australian Gov
eminent to visit that country having
been supplemented by an even more
cordial one from the British Ambas-
sador, Mr.. Bryce. Leaving Australia,
the vessels are to go to Manila, and
while in the Philippines the annual
fall target practice will be held.
Thence the return will be made to
the United States by way of Suez,
stopping only at such ports as are
necessary for coaling.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-20
n BETTER SHAPE Than
At START, EVANS REPORTS
Great American Fleet Arrives at
MagdaIena Bay.
READY FOR ANYTHING, SAYS DOE
Battleships Make a Splendid Voyage
After Target Practice There
Remains Only a Junl1et Along
the California Coast.


Remains Only a Junlet Along
the California Coast.
Washington, D. C.-Rear-AdmiraI
Evans reported to the Navy Depart
ment that the battleship fleet he com
mands had arrived in Magdalena Bay,
Mexico. The fleets voyage of Bill.
miles from Callao, Peru, was made III
eleven days, twenty hours, and it ar
rived two days ahead of scheduled
time.
Fighting Bob" Evans characters
tically adds in his report that every
vessel in the fleet is in better condi-
ton than when it left Hampton
Roads, Va, December 16; that the
fleet is prepared to meet any emer-
gency that could arise and is ready
for any service at days notice. The
Admiral adds that the feet will begin
target practice as soon as the ranges
can be established. Four GOLFERS
awaited the battleships' arrival.
A feeling of eXultation pervaded
the Navy Department, feeling whose
impulses are expressed partially in
the telegram which General Horace
Porter, president of the Navy League,
sent to Admiral Evans:
The Navy League of the United
States greets the commander, officers
and men of the splendid fleet which
has vindicated the Judgment of the
friends of the Navy by its successful
voyage, evincing readiness, efficiency
and discipline and assuring national
protection and continued peace, and
extends to them its congratulations
and pledges them it's continued
friendship and support"
The battleships left Hampton
Roads December 16; sailed 1850
miles, arrived at Port of Spain, Trim
idad, December %, remained six
days; sailed 300 miles, arrived at
Rio Janeiro, Brazil, January II,
stayed ten days; sailed 1928 miles,
arrived at Punta Arenas magellan
Strait, Chile, February 1, remained
six days; sailed February Z, passed
Valparaiso, Chile, February 10, and
having steamed 1865 miles, arrived
at Callao. Peru, February 20, stayed
nine days; sailed February 20,
steamed S114 miles and arrived at
Magdalena Bay March II, having
traversed 12,94S miles in seventy
eight sailing days and having passed
fifty-three days in port.
Naval officers emphasized the. fact
that the latest and longest "leg" of
the cruise, the 3114 miles from CAL
lao, was covered at the fastest rate
of steaming, so verifying, if that was
needed, Admiral Evans statement
that the war vessels are in better con-
dition than when they started. They
said, too, that taken primarily as
practice cruise, the voyage has
equalled expectations and ample and
repeated opportunities have been
given for drills, evolutions and other
tactics, as we'll as opportunities for
careful and exacting seamanship in
waters in which many American naval
men are comparatively new. Above
all, the fleet has finished the voyage
without an unpleasant happening.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-20
SHORT TIME IN FACTORIES
Many Employees Affected In New
England Mill Districts.
Cotton Mills the Chief Plants Affected
by Depression-Some of the Mills
Which Are Reducing Output.

Boston.-Thousand of employees
of New England mills and factories
went on short time basis, following
several months of depression. In
some places, however, reports come of
several factories resuming work after
a shutdown, or increasing their run
ming time. During the next few
weeks many mills will go on sho"|
time, so that no boom in industrial
circles is looked for at present. TIE
HarSraves and Parker No. / mills in
Fall River went on a four-days-a-
week basis, while the King Philip and
Ancona resumed operations Temporal
lily.
The Fisher Manufacturing Com.
pany's cotton mills at Baskerville,
Mass, employing 700 hands, were
shut down for week. The Cab
mills. of Brunswick, Me-. with s. }
hands, went on a schedule of four
DAYS week.
The cotton mills at Providence,
Woonsocket. Centreville, Riverpoint,
Arctic, Natick. Lippitt, Pontiac, Jack
son and White Rock, r. l.. and at
Dodgevilie, Hebronville, Readville
and Manchaug. Mass, all owned by B.
E. G R. Knight, and employing 5000
operatives, went on a three-Quarter
time schedule.
The Putnam Manufacturing Com
pany's cotton mills went on a three
and halliday schedule, and the
Nightingale and Powhatan mills, of
Putnam, Conn, have reduced the time
to four days weekly. About 700
hands are affected
The Edwards cotton mills, of Au-
gusta. Me-, employing 1000 hands,
adopted half-time schedule. and the
Within machine shops, at Whitins-
vile, Mass. making cotton mill ma
chinery, with 1900 men, reduced the
time to forty-five hours a week.
In Millbury about 100 hands are
affected at the Bowden telling mills,
which will run four days a week I'M
til further notice.
Curtailment of production is also
approved by the Chicopee cotton
mills, of Chicopee Falls, 1900 hands;
Dwight mills, of Chicopee. 1900 op-
eratives; Salmon Falls mills. Salmon
Falls, N. H., 700 operatives: Naum-
keag cotton mills, Salem, 1900 hands,
and other concerns.
The Jewett piano factories in Leo
minister went on a four-days-a-week
schedule.
The Talbot wooden mills. of North
Billerica. which have 600 hands, be-
gan running five days a week, instead
of four, as previously.
In Gardner, Mass, the furniture
factory of P. Derby & Co. began
running five days weekly, an increase
of ten hours weekly for 325 employees.
At the E. E. Stone Lumber and Box
Company's mill, in Spencer, the fifty
employees agreed to a ten per cent.
cut in wages in order to enable the
mill to resume work.
The working time at the plant of
the Waltham Watch Company, at
Waltham, was increased by seven
hours a week, making total of forty
seven and one-half working hours
weekly.
The Acushnet and Hathaway mills.
at New Bedford, employing 1910
hands, resumed work,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-20
FOUR MEN CONVICTED
IN CAPITOL GRAFT
Sanderson, Snyder, Mathues and
Shumaker Guilty.
TRIALS AT HARRISBURG, PA.

Two Years Imprisonment and $1,000
Fine Maximum Penalty in Penn
sylvania Loss of S5,000,O00
Claimed by State.
first of the Capitol conspiracy cases
to be tried gave verdict of guilty as
to every one of the four men who
have been on trial here for seven
weeks, after six hours deliberation.
There were two ballots taken, but the
jury did not come into court until
two hours after reaching conclusion.
The men found guilty are: John H.
Sanderson, contractor; William P.
Snyder, former Auditor General; w.
L. Mathues former State Treasurer,
and James NJ. Shumaker, former Su-
perintendent of Public Buildings and
Grounds.
Motions for new trials were made
in each case.
The jury came into court at $50 in
the evening, and minute later Fore
man Dunkle, in reply to Clerk of the
had agreed upon verdict
1t was read to the court and then
aloud. The jury was not polled, but
when the clerk read the verdict con-
victing all of conspiracy, each man
gave his assent by a nod. Judge
Kunkel thanked the jurymen for
their patience and the care given to
the case, and dismissed them with the
customary thanks of the court The
entire proceedings occupied ten min
uteS.
Only Sanderson and Snyder were
in court when the verdict was given,
and neither would talk. None of the
counsel for the defendants would say
anything about the case. The States
attorneys said they were pleased at
the result of their hard work. The
maximum penalty for each defendant
in this case is two years imprison-
ment and $1,000 fine.
The four men were convicted of
defrauding the State in furnishing
the new Capitol, which cost the State
about S13, 100000 instead of $4,000
900, the figure at which the contract
was estimated The present case con-
stituted one of the longest jury trials
in the history of Pennsylvania courts
and it attracted much attention
throughout the country.
The prosecution of the alleged
frauds was the outcome of the politi-
cal upheaval in Pennsylvania in 1906
which resulted in the election of Will
lam H. Berry, a Democrat, as State
Treasurer in the fall of that year.
Berry threw open the books of the
State Treasury and showed that the
cost of building the Capitol was more
than three times the amount of the
contract. The case was laid before
the Acknowledgement and indictments
were found against fourteen persons.
When the cases now pending
against the four persons who were
convicted are concluded the other de-
PENDANTS will be heard The State
! claims that there are frauds amount
ing to nearly 100000 in the fur
uishings of the Capitol.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Governor Magoon arrived at Ha.
vana and was warmly greeted by the
Cubans.
Richard Kearton, one OF England's
most famous naturalists, decided to
visit the United States.
Justice Harlan complains that 50.
ciety people in Washington desecrate
Sunday with teas, club dinners and
other social functions.
Professor John B. Watson, psyche.
logist of the University of Chicago
has resigned to accept a similar posi-.
ton at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore.
William Henry Burr, a pioneer in
photography, died in Washington, D.
c., in his eighty-ninth year. At one
time he was an official reporter of the
debates in the United States Senate.
The Kaiser's Oldest son, Grown
Prince Frederick William, is now to
study wireless telegraphy at the Nau.
sen experiment station, with Profes.
sor Slaby and Count Arco as his tn.
tors.
OAulu AOA5 AOl tic Olduesb
King, has informed some of his ac.
quaintances that he is about to write
book describing his adventures and
experiences during his recent travels
in Europe.
John H. Murphy, general counsel
for the Western Federation of Miners,
and also general counsel for the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
died of consumption at his home in
Denver, Col.
Senator Elkins, of West Virginia,
says that many of the men listed In
the Senate as worth all the way from
s1,000.000 100000, 900 each wouls
be willing to take ten per cent. Of
these estimates in cash to-day"
Senator Allison, seventy-nine years
old, received the congratulations Of
his colleagues in Congress. He will
complete his thirty-fifth year in the
Senate, which breaks all records. He
has been in Congress forty-thres
years.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-20
EXPLOSION KILLS EIGHT.
Militia Guard at Natchez, Miss, Fol-
lowing Wreck and Fires.

Natchez. Miss.-Eight persons we're
killed, one was severely injured and
property valued at many thousands
of dollars was wrecked as the result
of an explosion of gas in the base
ment of a five-story building occupied
by the Natchez Drug Company, at
Main and North Union streets, near
the business quarter.
The dead are Cleve Laubat, Mrs.
Ketteringham, Miss Luella Booth,
Miss Lizzie Worthy, Miss Carrie Muir
ray, Miss Inez Netterville, Miss Ada
White and Elias Hotchkiss. The lat
ter, a carpenter, ran from the build
ing and fell, breaking his neck. John
Carkett, seventy-one years old, suf-
fered fractures of both legs. He is
not expected to live. The wreckage
caught fire, and stiff wind carried
huge sparks to the north and west,
setting fire to eighteen residences,
seven of which were destroyed.
All business has been suspended
and the local companies of militia
were put on duty.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-20
100000 OUT OF WORK
IN NEW YORK CITY
Must Dig Subways to Aid Unem-
pIoyed, is Lahor's Demand.
CONGRESS DISCUSSES MATTER

Central Federated Union Send Com.
mittee to Albany to Ask Hughes
to Investigate Cause of Delay in
Starting Improvements.
New York City. = Declaring that
here are more than 100000 unem-
oloyed in New York City, and that
the letting of subway contracts would
offer the most immediate relief, the
Central Federated Union voted to ask
Governor Hughes to investigate the
real status of the city's debt and
Comptroller Metz's reasons for de-
laying subway construction. A COM
mittee of three was ordered to go to
Albany to see the Governor.
The coming parade and demonstra-
lion of the unemployed of New York.
now scheduled for the afternoon of
Saturday two weeks hence, and the
discussion last week in Congress of
labor leaders statement that there
are 100000 idle in this city alone,
brought the question of subway dig
ging home to every labor delegate,
and the report of the special commit
tee was put through with rush. The
reopening of public works was de-
clared to be the first duty of the city
In view of the number of unemployed.
Representative Willett, of New
York, stirred up Congress with a let
ter of Samuel A. Stodel, secretary of
the New York Council of Independ-
ent World Workers, giving the num-
Der of unemployed in New York as
503,5O0. OF this number Stodel esti-
mated that 147,500 are union men,
bers and $4,000 non-unionists. Lead
ers of the Central Federated Union
were asked for their estimates of the
unemployed, and with few exceptions
they placed the number above $780,
600.
"A conservative estimate, based on
canvass of the delegates of the re-
spective unions affiliated with this
body, places the number of idle union
workers in New York at 100000"
said Albert Abrahams, vice-president
of the c. F. u, and If you count those
working two or three or four days a
week." declared Abrahams, 1.-The num-
Der will reach nearer 100000. We
estimate the number of unemployed,
union and non-union, in New York
and the suburban cities and towns at
10000. We are told here that or
the members of the PAYERS Union, for
instance, ninety per cent are idle;
the cigarmakers have one-third of
their men out of work, the building
trades one-half, and the printers,
compositors and pressmen, one
fourth"
The Unemployed Conference Com
mittee, which meets in the Labor
Temple in East Eighty-fourth street,
has determined to go to court, If nee
essary, to obtain permission to as
. semble in the Union Square plaza.
The parade was to have been held two
weeks ago but was postponed, await
ing the result of the conferences with
the Mayor and Comptroller over pos
| sible public improvements.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-20
LABOR WORLD.

The coal mines of the world en-
ploy 100000 men.
A federation of the northern, south
ern and western coal miners union
in New South Wales is now com
pleted.
The three mills of the Stark Roll
ing Mill Company, at Canton, Ohio
shut down for three months, have
resumed.
The Soap and Candle Workers
Unions in South Australia, Victorii
and New South Wales, are taking
steps to federate.
Another check on sweating chill
dren has been introduced in the New
South Wales Assembly, in the shapt
of minimum wage bill.
Since the national convention o.
textile workers of the United State
in 1906 the international body hal
issued sixty charters to new unions
The plate, slab and structural mill
of the Illinois Steel Company, IL
South Chicago, resumed with worl
for 1000, and 5000 more men viii
be called in.
A recent mass meeting of Mime
apolis (Minn.) union freight hand
lers and railway clerks has resulted
in protest against any reduction II
the prevailing rate of pay.
Agreements between the Lake Err!
fish packers and fish tug owners ant
the delegates of the Tugmen ant
Fishermen's Union have been signes
at Cleveland, Ohio, for the season.
Chicago dispatches say that from
5000 to 5000 additional telegraph op
orators will have to be employed D!
the railroads to conform with the law
which became operative recently lin
iting the days work to nine hours
This will cost the railroads iron
SS,o00,000 to $40, 100000 year.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-20
PHILANTHROPY PENNILEss.
DR.. Sill. of Worcester, Mass, Predict.
ed His Death, Gave Away Money.

Worcester, Mass-At the age of
eighty-three, penniless and without
relative to turn to for aid, DR.. John
Wellesley Sill, well known philan-
thropist and cancer specialist, has ap-
piled to the overseers of the poor
here, having been in want for some
time, and has been sent to the State
Poorhouse
A year ago he predicted his death
within six months, and in that expec-
tation gave away all his property in
Wales and in Toronto, and all his
money to friends and charitable in
situations. keeping enough to live on
for six months. The time expired.
and his friends whom he had aided
refused to help him.