Semi-weekly herald., 1908-11-26


master takes the position that Infant
Industries" no longer need protection;
that the steel and other industries
have now grown beyond the need of
tariff protection; that duties on lux
uries used by the rich should be main
| tnined, but that those on manufactured
articles should be reduced greatly or
abolished entirely when no longer
needed.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 23.-Con-
| veying to the American government
the gratitude of the Chinese people
| for the remittance of a debt amount
ing to nearly s14,0OO.0OO. Tang Shao
VI, powerful figure in the affairs OF
the Chinese empire. arrived in San
Francisco today on the steamer Mon
| golia. With him was Prince Tsai Flu,
member of the royal family, and
| large retinue.
Thrice in the history of the Oldest
nation has there arisen occasion for
the appointment of such a commission
| as is domiciled today in the Fairmount
ho{el and never has foreign power
been SO thoroughly represented
| through diplomatic channels during a
period Of crisis of worldwide import.
In his honor the dragon flag flew
today from the mastheads of score
of vessels in the bay, guns mounted
on the harbor front doomed out sa-
lutte and thousands of his countrymen,
silk robed or silk hated. thronged
the dock where his escort landed.
HOUSTON. Tex. Nov. 23.-Five pas
sengers and two trainmen were in
iured when the incoming Southern Pa.
cific train from New Orleans collided
with a switch engine pulling a mum
ber of loaded cars in the local yards
last night.
NEW YORK. Nov. 23.-The lives OF
500 persons were imperiled yesterday
when the fruit steamer Admiral Dew
ey, inward bound from Jamaica, crash.
ed into the steamer Mount Desert, out
going from Bayridge and for the fish
ing banks.
The Admiral Dewey was coming
suddenly out of a fog bank when 1t
struck the Mount Desert almost amid
ship, opening a cash in the fishing
vessel that extended from the upper
deck to the waters edge. There were
$50 passengers, including twenty won.
en- and six children on the Mount Des
ent and the Admiral Dewey carried
forty-five persons. In addition there
were the crews of the two steamers,
A panic Immediately followed the
collision and 1t was due to prompt ac-
tion of Captain Davidson of the Dewey
that catastrophe was averted. for
the passengers on the fishing steamer
began piking over the guard rails of
that vessel and leaped for the deck of
the Admiral Dewey. Had he backed
his steamer away many would have
| fallen into the water. Instead he kept
his vessel moving slowly ahead and
this held the PROV into the rent that
had been made and afforded board
ing place for frightened passengers of
the Mount Desert.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Nov. "a
What the actual conditions are in
western Arkansas where it is known
that many are dead, several score in.
jured and many penniless as the vic
tins of two tornadoes which swept
through that portion of the state late
yesterday is yet matter largely of
conjecture. Although large force of
men have worked through last night
and done everything to establish com.
| munication with that section, their
work this morning is still incomplete
Early today a report still indefinite
continued to reach this city but was
no more satisfactory than those re,
| ceived last night. Later dispatches,
| however, indicate no change as to
the number of fatalities which is CON
servatively estimated at thirty, al.
tnouen reports from several sources
| declare the death list will aggregate
| fifty with much of the storm swept
| territory yet to be heard from.
| No estimates have been made as to
property loss, and Judging from all
reports received thus far, will go into
hundreds of thousands. Miles upon
miles of land have been swept bare
forests, homes, business houses, chuch.
es and everything have been demol-
ished alike in many communities. Sew
eral dispatches say whole forests of
trees torn out by their roots and that
many buildings were demolished, lift.
ed from their foundations and twisted
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-Because
he barely avoided running down the
| president of the United States with his
bicycle while the latter was walking
to church last Sunday, Bilbert Boyer. a
negro youth was arrested on the
charge of mot having a suitable bell
on his bicycle" Boyer was released
today upon putting up s5 collateral