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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
NEwsY GLEANINGs.

Governor John Sparks. of Nevada,
died at his ranch near Reno.
The President was supported by
the courts in the Brownsville test
case.
New York BARRIERS at a stormy
meeting refused to indorse Governor
Hughes as candidate for President.
Minister Russell said the bubonic
plague at La Guayra was more Sc
rious than generally believed outside
of Venezuela.
The French Chamber has voted
credit of $1,000 for the expenses of
transporting Zola's body to the Pam
theon in June.
An assembly of hop-pickers. esti-
mated at $4,000. gathered in Trafal-
gar Square. London. and demanded a
duty on imported hops.
Harry Thaw has refused to pay
bills approximating 100000 on the
technicality that he cannot transact
business until he is declared sane.
Governor General Smith has called
an extra session of the Philippine As
sembly in order to force that body to
complete It's schedule OF legislation.
The Board of Education. New York
City, has decided to establish disci-
plinary rooms for bad bovs-a kind
of woodshed annex to the public
schools.
Arthur Ponsonby, former secretary
to Sir Henry Zimmerman,
was chosen to succeed the late Pre-
mier in the British House by an in
creased Liberal majority.
Senator Foraker urged the 10. 000,-
600 negroes of the country to agitate
among Republican candidates for ma
tional Office for support of the bill to
reinstate the Brownsville soldiers
William Bartlett, alias Cold
Tooth Billy" confessed that he and
Theodore Whitmore, accused of muir
dering his wife in a swamp at Harri-
son, N. j., committed more than 100
burgiar.es.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

The arrangements for the visit Of
the Prince of Wales to Quebec in jury
have been completed.
Heinrich Knote, the German tenor,
was married in Munich to Miss Katie
Feilner, one of his pupils.
The Duke of Abruzzi was ordered
to devote himself closely to his duties
as an Italian naval officer for year.
Baron Kogoro Takahira, the Jap
anese Ambassador, was the leading
speaker at the Lake Mohonk peace
conference.
Admiral Togo and other Japanese
naval officers of the highest rank
we're entertained at dinner at Toxic,
Japan, on the Rainbow by Rear-Ad-
miral Hemphill.
Kaiser Wilhelm has not had the
temerity to expel Heine's statue alto.
getber from the grounds of his villa
at Corfu. He has merely banished it
to an obscure corner.
Winston Spencer Churchill. in a
speech at Manchester, England. said
that the Liberal Government would
claim free hand in dealing with the
question of Irish government.
+. c. Aud said he would soon pub.
fish book entitled THE Soul of So
ciety," in which he tells the secret of
discovering your true soulmate. thus
enabling you to avoid the divorce
court.
Father Thomas p. Mclaughlin, of
New Rochelle, N. Y. who favors base
ball playing Sunday afternoons, said
President Roosevelt told him he often
played tennis after attending church
services
The Rev. DR.. ]. Lewis Parks, rec
tor of Calvary Protestant Episcopal
Church. New York City, in sermon
declared that brokers who use for
their own speculative purposes stock
which had been deposited with them
by customers are guilty of theft.
Governor j. o. Davidson, of Wis
consin. while shaving slipped and
sprained his arm.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
LABOR WORLD.

The Indian Government is onnosad
o the demands made upon them by
he telegraph operators.
British colliery enginemen decided
ron, Steel and Tin Workers has
tdopted the 1907 scale.
The life-savers of Coney Island re-
luested the Brooklyn IN. W Contra,
labor Union to organize them into a
rade union
The California State Convention NJ
he National Association of Station
Try Engineers is to be held in Stock.
on on June IL.
Under the revised constitution of
he International Carriage and WAGON
Workers Union death benefits will no
paid the members.
Wages in Toxic are considerably
higher than those paid elsewhere in
Japan. Carpenters in Toxic get thir-
:y-f1ve cents day.
A new bill is being drawn I'D nro-
viding for a State printing Office in
Minnesota and will be presented 10
the next Legislature.
The city of Milan. Italy, has voted
s1,150,000 for the construction of
houses specially built for working
men and their families.
AT meeting of the Ohio Valley
Trades and Labor Assembly held re-
gently it was unanimously decided to
put labor ticket in the field.
A proposition is being advanced
among the retail clerks of San Fran
cisco, Cal, to build hall for the use
of the several unions of that craft.
Sixty labor organizations have
launched the Chicago uH.) EQUITY
Exchange. which proposes to distrib-
ute farm products direct from the
grower to the consumer
President Gompers and the Execu.
tive Council of the American Fedora.
ton of Labor have been requested to
issue separate charter to the build.
ing trades of Brooklyn. n. Y.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

Washington, D. C.-The first ses-
sion of the Sixtieth Congress ad-
journed sine die at 1850 O'Clock p.
m. amid roaring song in the House
and with its customary solemnity in
the Senate. AS usual the House gal
leries were crowded, many with "Mer-
ry Widow" hats apparently.
President Roosevelt arrived at the
Capitol at 9.05 o'clock to sign bills.
He came in an open carriage and was
in evening dress, with white rose in
his lapel He was conducted to his
room by Secretary Loeb, Sergeant-at-
Arms Ransdell and two Secret Serv-
ice r.en. Secretaries Root. Cortel-
you and Garfield and First Assistant
Postmaster-General Grandfield await
ed him to advise on bills passed.
One of the first measures signed
was the Currency bill. This was done
after the President had had a ten
minute earnest talk with Senator AL
drich.
The committees of House and Sem
ate called at 10 o'clock to inform the
President that by joint resolution the
Congress would adjourn at 11.50 p.
m. and to ask if he had any further
business to lay before the body. Mr..
Roosevelt said no.
The Government Liability bill was
signed by the President and Vice
President before it was finally ap-
proved by the Senate in order to ex-
pedjte business. The last bill signed
was the Omnibus Territorial measure
at IL D. m. The President started for
hA White az 10 nna1y-
eted a bill to compensate inventors
for inventions used by the Govern
ment. That meant that it was ve-
toed.
The President, in conversing with
several members, told them that he
was very will satisfied with the &C.
complishments of the Congressional
session.
The great filibuster against the
adoption of the Northumberland cur
rency makeshift came to an end just
before O'Clock in the afternoon.
The conference report was adopted,
43 to %. Five Republicans, Borah,
Bourne, Brown, Hepburn and La Fol-
lette, voted with seventeen Democrats
to make the %. No Democrat went
on record for the bill.
There was dramatic finish to the
theatrical filibuster. Senator Stone
left the chamber while the blind SEN
ator Gore was speaking. He had not
returned when Gore finished, although
he had expected to be back to take up
the time-killing. Senator La Toilette,
who had been told that ne might take
eight hours rest and that the floor
would be kept, had not returned.
AS Gore finished he turned his
sightless eyes toward Stones seat. ex-
pecting to hear him claim recognition.
Instead. Vice-President Fairbanks or
dered q vote. Before any Senator
could do anything the roll was being
called.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
A TWO-BuLION-
DOLLAR CONGRESS

Washington, D. C.-The one that
ended was the most expensive session
of Congress in the history of the
country. 1t means more than two
billion-dollar Congress.
The first session of the Fifty-ninth
Congress appropriated s879,5S9,1S5.
The present session exceeds that enor-
nous sum by approximately $144,-
100000.
Nearly 10000 bills were introduced
at this session, beating all previous
records In the Senate 1870 bills
were presented, and in the House
22,266.
About 200 public and 100 private
acts have become laws at this session.
The 100 private acts include about
1000 private claims. 1t is estimated
that s1,O00,000 has been saved in
printing and other expenses by col
lecting these measures into omnibus
bills
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
TURRET OF FLORIDA
W|THSTANDS BIG GUN
Mechanism in Good Order After
Impact of 12-Inch ProjectiIe.
NOT SURE SHELL EXPLODED
Defamation Was Imperfect and Fun
Force of Explosive Wasn't Real
ized-Fighting Mast Success
Tests May Revolutionize Navies.

Fort Monroe, Va.-On The broad
waters of Hampton Roads, near
where forty-six years ago the Monitor
and the Merrimac riddled each 9th =
with shot and shell. two modern me :
itors engaged in bloodless contest
in the interest of naval science.
The monitor Arkansas, Of 1925
tons. fired six shots at her sister ship,
the Florida, each of which was ac-
curately aimed and effective
One of the shots fred by the =.
kansas was a 12-inch projectile load.
ed with new high explosive. This
shot struck the port plate of the Flor
ida's turret Just little to the side
of a dummy gun which had been
placed in position to take the place
of the regular 12-inch gun. The shot
smashed the 12-inch armor protect
ing the front of the turret and also
badly loosened the armor seams on
the side of the turret.
The naval experts declared after
this shot that the test had been highly
successful. The force of the 12-inch
high explosive shell had been entirely
spent in crushing the armor plate and
the cloth screen placed inside the tur-
ret ports showed no damage. indicat-
ing that none of the fragments of the
exploding she'll had entered the turret
ports and showing, as Chief Con-
structor Washington L. Caps de-
clared, that il any one had been in the
turret at the time the powerful pro-
jectile struck he would not have been
injured. The only occupant of the
turret was dummy man, arranged
with springs and wires to record the
shock. He was standing at the breech
of one of the dummy 12-inch guns
and was unhurt.
Five shots from 4-inch and 12-inch
guns of the Arkansas were also fired
at the experimental military mast on
the stern of the Florida. but it with
stood the ordeal. Several of the steel
rods composing it were severed by
the shells. but its stability was not
lessened by the shots
The purpose of the tests was to de-
termine the effect of powerful gunfire
under modern battle conditions on
the fire control system. the turret
mechanism and other internal fittings
of the ship. AS soon as the 12-inch
she'll exploded against the Florida's
turret. Chief Constructor Washing
ton L. Caps and Rear-Admiral New
ton E. Mason. chief of the Bureau of
Ordnance. made an examination of
the turret They found that the tur-
ret could b. operated as we'll as be-
fore the shot and that the 12-inch gun
mechanism, which was to certain ex-
tent shielded from the effect of the
! explosion. could be elevated and de-
pressed as well as before the shot was
fred. In other words. while the pro-
jectile smashed the port plate. the
gear for moving the turret and for
handling the guns and ammunition
| was not damaged.
1t was the first time in the history
of the United States Navy that actual
! conditions of warfare have been re-
produced for experimental purposes.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

The Ailsa Craig has entered ;he
motor boat race to Bermuda.
Boston women defeated New York
rivals in an intercity series of AVN
tennis matches.
fachtsmen and others familiar
with the facts declared the Bermuda
course perfectly safe for s;anch crs.,
in June.
Young Rector, OF the University q.
Virginia, who ran loo yards agains.
the wind in 3-5 seconds. equaliing
the worlds record, qualihed fu. All
education at New Haven, Cambridge
or Princeton.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
SIxT|ETH CONGRESS ENDS
ITS FIRST SESSION
Adjourns Quickly After Senate
Passes Currency Bill.
APPROPRIATIONS BREAK RECORD
Billion Dollars Expended at This Ses.
sion - Government Employers
Liability Bill Put Through
President Pleased With Results.
MEASURES WON AND LOST BY
PRESIDENT.
The President Obtained

The President Obtained
Emergency Currency bill.
Program of two battleships a
year.
Increased pay for the army,
navy, marine corps and revenue
cutter service.
Consular reorganization.
Commission to investigate cur
rency laws.
Preliminary investigation of the
tariff by experts.
Employers liability.
Child labor law for District of
Columbia and Territories.
The President Lost
Ocean Mail Subsidy.
Anti-Injunction act.
Amendments to Sherman Anti
Trust law.
Government liability.
Continuance of Inland Water
ways Commission.
Physical valuation of railroads.
Suspension of commodity clause
of the Rate law.
Appalachian Forest Reserve.
Philippines tariff.
Administration Brownsville bill.
Ratification of Berlin Wireless
Treaty.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
TWO WAGE CUTS.
Cotton Operatives at Fall River and
Lawrence Affected.

Fall River. Mass.--The new wage
agreement between he cotton manu-
facturers and the Textile Council be-
came effective. Under the agreement
the $4,000 operatives accept a wage
reduction of about eighteen per cent.
The mills here have been running on
short time for several months, but it
is expected that the production will
be increased considerably next month.
The cut in this city sweils the num-
Der of cotton operatives in New Eng
land whose wages have been reduced
this spring to about 10000.
Lawrence, Mass.--Notice of wage
reduction of about ten per cent, to
go into effect on June /, was posted
at the Arlington Mills. About 5000
hands will be affected.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
FOUR BISHOPS ELECTED.
Episcopal General Conference at Bal.
timore Completes It's Quota.


Baltimore, Md.-The Rev. DR.. Will
son S. Lewis, president of the Morn
ingside College. Sioux City. Ia; the
Rev. DR.. Edwin H Hughes. president
of the De Paw University. Green
castle. Ind, or the fifteenth ballot;
d.. Robert Mcintyre of Los Angeles.
Cal, on the sixteenth ballot, and the
Rev Frank M. Bristol, of Washing
ton, D. c.. on the eighteenth ballot,
were elected Bishops at the Metho-
dist Episcopal General Conference.
This completes the quota of eight.
The other four Bishops elected are:
The Rev. W. F. Anderson. of New
York; the Rev. w A. Quayle, of Chi
cago; the Rev. C. W. Smith, of Pitts
burg, and the Rev J. L. Nuelsen. of
Berea, Ohio.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
NORTH CAROLINA GOES DRY
Majority For Prohibition Will Prob.
ably Be More Than 10000.

Raleigh, \. C.--In the election on
the liquor issue in North Carolina Al
majority for prohibition of upward
of 10000 was given. 1t is possible
that the majority will reach $4,000.
Buncombe County, in which Ashe-
vile is located, gave about 1000 ma
jority for the dry ticket. The cleo
.tion was conducted quietly. and there
was no trouble at the polls.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
The Mohmands Beaten,

The Mohmands Beaten.
London.-The outbreak among the
Mohmand tribesmen in India is coll
lapsing. General Willcocks has in
fiicted several sharp defeats upon
them and they are submitting uncon-
ditionally.
Five Republics Court.
Cartago, Costa Rica.-The Central
American Court of Justice held its
opening session in this city. The day
| was observed as a national holiday
throughout Costa Rica. Nicaragua,
Salvador and Honduras. This court
is an outcome of the Central Ameri-
can Peace Conference. held in Wash
| ington last year.
France and Germany Agree.
Berlin.-A full understanding be-
tween France and Germany relative
! to Morocco was reached at recent
conference between the French Am
bassador to Germany and the German
Foreign Minister.
Scotch Home Rule.
London.-Another of the pledges
| given by Winston Spencer Churchill
| in his recent electoral campaign in
Dundee has borne quick fruit. and a
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES bill was intro
duced in the House of Commons by
Duncan Vernon Pirie, member for
North Aberdeen.
Cholera in Philippines.
Manila. - Cholera has apparently
taken serious foothold in the prov
ince of Pangasinan. Four cities, in
Guiding Dagupan, are infected, and
| the Bureau of Health is sending addi-
tional inspectors, planning to stamp
out the disease. The family of the
| lightkeeper at Dagupan was infected,
and five of its members died. Their
condition was discovered through
their inability to extinguish the light
in the day time.
Irrigation For Cuba.
Havana. - Governor Magoon has
addressed a letter to the Advisory
Commission instructing that body to
frame an irrigation law, irrigation be-
ing one of the greatest needs of Gu
ban agriculture.
Want Opium Excluded From Hawaii.
Honolulu.-TheC Chinese United So
ciety and the Chinese Anti-Opium
League have cabled Senator Joseph
3. Foraker, OF Ohio, urging the pas
sage by Congress of the bill prohibit
ing the importation of opium to the
Hawaiian Islands.
Four Killed, Sixty Hurt.
Buenos Ayres. A collision &C.
Cured between a train of the rural
railway of the Lacroze Company and
tramcar of the same company in
the outskirts of this city. The tram
car, in which were more than 100
passengers, was completely destroyed.
Four persons were killed and sixty
injured, several, it is feared mortally.
BattIcship's Bow Pierced.
st. Petersburg The Russian bat
tleship Peter the Great, which ran on
the rocks in the Gulf of Finland, was
refioated without assistance, although
her bow was pierced.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
EVELYN THAW DROPS SUIT.
Prisoners Mother Issues Ultimatum
$1,000 a Month For Her.

New York City. Mrs. William
Thaw issued her ultimatum to Mrs.
Evelyn Thaw. 1t instantly stopped
the young woman's suit for the an
nulment of her marriage to Harry K.
Thaw.
The elder Mrs. Thaw stated,
through her counsel, Colonel Frank
lin Bartlett that she has been allow
ing Mrs. Evelyn Thaw an income of
$1,000 month and indicated that
this would Immediately be cut off if
the conduct of the young woman was
not satisfactory to her.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
PATERSON TO SUE WRITER.
City Also t.: Name broadway Maya.
zine" in Libel Case.

Paterson, N. Mayor Mcbride
has instructed City Counsel Mercy
to bring suit for libel against The
Broadway Magazine" and Broughton
Braldenburg, writer The suit is
based on an article entitled Tho
Menace of the Red Flag" rejecting
on Paterson, which appeared in the
current number of the magazine.
About three years ago Mr.. Bran
denburg published Il similar article
in Golfers Weekly. The late Mayor
Johnson made protest to the pub
fishers and a retraction was made.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
COMMISSION ON
CURRENCY NAMED

Washington, D. C.-The vice-Pres-
ident announced Senators Aldrich,
Allison, Burrows. Hale, Knox, Daniel.
Teller, Money and Bailey as members
of the Currency Commission
The Speaker appointed as members
of the Commission on behalf of the
House: Vreeland, New York; Over
street, Indiana; Burton, Ohio; Weeks,
Massachusetts,; Bonynge, Colorado;
Smith, California. Republicans;
Padgett, Tennessee; Burgess, Texas,
and Pujo, Louisiana, Democrats.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

Giving evidence before the Coast
Erosion Commission, DR.. Otto Stapf
described the reclamation work per-
formed by Snartina grasses. which,
he said, spread by underground
shoots and seed which was dispersed
by tides and currents, and presuma-
bly, by water birds. Certain forms
established themselves easily, and the
roots and bases of the dense clumps
effectively fixed the mud, and where
they occurred in dense patches they
formed protecting belt for the shore
or bank behind them.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
Foul Tin Kills Catcher,

John Wulcotte, nineteen years old,
who was assistant foreman in large
factory at Cincinnati, Ohio, was catch
ing in a game of baseball between two
local amateur teams, when foul ball
struck him behind the right ear, frac-
turning his skull and killing him in
stantly.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
s10,ooo,ooo MINING co. FAILS.

Stockholders Have Sunk $3.50, 900 in
Amador Mining and Development.
Chicago mining bubble
burst when it became known that the
Amador Mining and Development
Company, of Montana, a $4,000, 900
corporation, with headquarters in
Chicago, had come to an end
Letters will inform 400 stockho,d-
ers, the majority of them Chicagoans,
that the copper-gold mine in which
they have sunk s650,000 is worthless,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
q. p. RESUMES BUILDING.
Erecting New Shops at Omaha to
Cost $4,000 900.

Omaha, Neb.-The Union Pacific
Railroad will Immediately resume the
spending of money, and General Man
ager Mohler, of that railroad. an
nounced to the Omaha Commercial
Club that Mr.. Hartman had author
lied him to proceed with the building
OF the company's new shops in
Omaha, the construction of which
was halted when the financial dis
turbance came on last fall The new
shops will require the expenditure of
about 100000.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
Five Years and s57e,oe4 Fine.

At Salem, Ore. Judge Burnett sem
fenced ]. Thoburn Ross, the Portland
banker, to five years Imprisonment
and to pay fine of $576,0s4. Ross
was recently convicted of wrongful
conversion of State school funds in
his capacity as president of the Title
Guarantee and Trust Company.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

Pittsburg the closing session
of the Mems Jubilee Congress of the
United Presbyterian Church foreign
missionary work was considered, and
1t was decided to raise during the
year 100000 for foreign missions.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

Dog Carried Four Miles by Tornado.
The tornado, which destroyed much
property at Rice. Texas, few days
ago. carried an English coach dog
belonging to Robert Kennedy four
miles. The animal was only slightly
injured.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
HOUSE PASSES CURRENCY BILL
Vote Was 166 to 40, Fourteen Re.
Dublicans Casting Votes Against 1t.

publicans Casting Votes Against 1t.
Washington, D. C.-By a majority
of twenty-six the House adopted the
conference report on the Aldrich and
Vreeland financial measures.
The vote was: Ayes, 166: nays.
140; present and not voting, i. All
the Democrats voted against it, and
also the following Republicans:
Brumm, of Pennsylvania; Calderhead,
Campbell and Murdoch, of Kansas;
Cooper, Nelson and Morse, of Wiscon-
sin; Darragh, of Michigan; Fowler. of
New Jersey; Henry and Hill, of Con-
necticut; Lindbergh, of Minnesota;
Prince, of Illinois, and Waldo, of New
York.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
SUICIDE is NO CRIME

Decision by District Attorney in The
Flossie Douglass Case.
Pittsburg. Suicide is rot crime
in Pennsylvania. Therefore any per-
son who aids in the commission OF
the act is not guilty in law" This
ruling was made by First Assistant
District Attorney Robert McElroy in
the case of Frank A. Judd, chief clern
of the State senate, in whose arms
Flossie Douglass. the ACTRESS. died,
after taking poison because Judd y AS
about to cast her off.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
JOHN A. HAMLIN DEAD.
Invented Method of Advertising Mc,li.
cine by Wagon Singers.

Chicago, LII. John Austin Hamlin,
proprietor of the Grand Opera House.
died of heart disease. He was seven
ty-one years old and for many years
was engaged in the manufacture and
sale of Hamlin's Wizard OIL He de-
vised the plan of sending singers and
troupes of actors across the country,
giving exhibitions from wagons. He
is survived by his widow and four
children.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
Corn Price Advanced

The price of May corn advanced
five cents on the Chicago Board of
Trade. and IL was reported that u
number of the largest shorts were
badly squeezed.