The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-09-10


William ]. Bryan visited Salem, Hi.
nois, his birth place. August Goth. and
was greeted by the largest crowd ever
assembled in the town, to whom he
made political speech.
Employers of negro labor in Spring
field, ILL.,, are being threatened by
anonymous letter writers, who seem
TO represent some kind of an organ
izauon in sympathy with the recent
riot.
David e. Thompson, American am
bassodar to Mexico was run down by
a bicycIist in tire center of the City of
Mexico Tuesday and suffered a frac-
lure OF one arm and Commissions of the
face.
Preparations for the celebration of
Count Tolstoy's eightieth birthday
on September 9th, are strongly disap.
proved by the Russian government.
and some authorities are bringing
pressure to bear to check the plans
Tor the celebration.
The forces of Add El-Aziz. Sultan of
Morocco, have been defeated in the
fleld by the adherents of his brother,
Mulai llafid, who has been proclaimed
be In supreme control in all the large
cities of Morocco.
After stormy closing session of the
National Fraternal congress at Put In
Bay, Ohio. the uniform bill which is
modelled after the fraternal insurance
law OF Ohio was finally passed and
VIII be recommended to the state leg
islatures this fall.
The fastest time from Cherbourg to
New York over the course of 3OG9
miles was made by the steamer Kron
PIinZeSsin Cecilie, which arrived in
New York Tuesday. The time of the
passage was five days, eleven hours,
nine minutes, with an average speed of
25.25 knots an hour
AS manner of showing their appre.
citation of the support which they re
celYed from other labor unions during
their strike for an eight-hour day the
International Typographical Union at
Boston recently voted to spend $1,000
in entertainment of the delegates 20
the convention of the American Fed
GRAFTON in Denver this fall Part of the
money Will be used in trips around the
state
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm II. has established
new record in time elapsed and aver
age speed for any vessel over the long
course, $3.50 miles, from Sandy Hook
to Plymouth. She made the distance
in five days, nine hours and fiftyseven
minutes, and averaged for the dis
tance 231 miles an hour The best
days run was $50 knots, which was
accomplished two days in succession.
The appeal in the Milwaukee-Colo-
RADIO land fraud cases will not he ar
gued before the United States Court
of Appeals at Chicago next November
as was intended. The government of
ficials have determined to await the
decision of the Supreme Court rela-
tive to the recent decision of Judge
Lewis, of Denver, holding that Grim
inal prosecutions cannot be instituted
by the government under the coal land
act
Richard Croker of New York has
been made an honorary burgess of
Dublin The roll is limited to dis
tinguished persons who have rendered
service to Ireland, or to the cause of
liberty at home and abroad, and the
names of three Americans precede
that of Croker. General Grant, Edward
Potter, captain of the ship Constitu-
ton, which brought relief to Ireland
in 1880. and the late Patrick A. Col
Inns, who was at one time mayor OF
Boston.
According to advices received by
the Y. NJ. c. A. at New York American
sailors of Admiral Sperry's roundthe-
world fleet will not be permitted to
break the hearts of the Japanese gel
sha girls if the Y. NJ. C. A. of Japan,
the native Christian churches and the
missionaries are able to prevent it. Re
ligious organizations in Japan are
protesting against the old style of
Japanese hospitality. which is ex
pected to include introduction to the
Geisha girls.