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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
A CONFERENCE ON TELEGRAPHy
Revision Of the Gable and Telegraph
Code to Be Made.

Lisbon, Portugal, May Am in
ternational telegraph conference, at
which nearly all the governments of
Europe and America are represen
ted, was opened in Lisbon today.
The United States is represented by
Charles Page Bryan, United States
minister to Portugal. and Roland r.
Dennis, a special agent of the de-
partment of commerce and labor
stationed at Berlin The United
States army is also represented by a
member of the signal corps. One of
the important matters before the
conference is a revision of the cable
and telegraph codes now in use by
the business interests of the world.
Nearly all the South American
states have sent representatives,
who are attempting to bring about
the abrogation of the present code
system substituting therefor the old
rule limiting messages to words con-
veying their full import, and taken
from seven European languages. In
this case the smaller republics will
not get the backing Of their big
neighbor. 1t is not to be Pan-Am-
erican position versus a Pan-Euro-
pean. The United States will join
England, France, Germany and the
other important nations of Europe
in protest against the proposed
change.
Having established the telegraph
| ic esperanto" whereby great saving
of tolls'has been effected, the busi-
( ness world is naturally not inclined
/ to return to a system that is more
unwieldly and, what is worse, much
more expensive. One banking house
in New York has just completed the
compilation of new code book at a
cost of $4,000 and another at a
cost of $4,000. These are but in
stances of sufficient number to
run into the millions and these
would be worthless were the propo-
sition carried into effect. The fact
+ that this suggested change would
make cabling much more expensive
is what commends it to the South
American states. Their revenues
would be expanded by the increased
tolls.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
The Result in Ellis County.

Out of the forty-eight voting box
es in Ellis county complete returns
were received from thirty-seven Sat
urday night by this paper and pos
ted on the bulletin board at the City
Drug Store These boxes gave Bailey
2787 and Johnson 2154 votes, Bal
ley's lead being 633. The eleven
boxes not reporting are small ones
and it is not believed they will make
any material change in the above re-
suit
The first reports reached this Of
flee a few minutes after O'Clock
and by $3.50 the result was known
so far as Ellis county was concerned.
The posting of the bulletins at
tracted a large crowd, both sides be-
ing well represented. Each side
cheered Justify when the returns
were in their favor The paper is un-
der obligations to the telephone COM
panies for the efficient service and
assistance rendered. Bulletins from
the state at large were received by
the Southwestern Telegraph and
Telephone company and read to the
crowd assembled at this papers bull
letin board.
Precinct conventions were held in
the city Saturday afternoon at $3.50.
Bailey delegates were elected from
the four boxes to the county conven-
ton, which meets in the district
court room tomorrow afternoon at
2 O'Clock. 1t was stated late Satur-
day afternoon that contesting dele
cations would go up from East Wax
ahachie and South Waxahachie. In
this event the contests will be ad-
justed by the committee on creden-
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04

Norfolk, Va, May 4.-Delgates
from all parts of the country, repre-
senting the $4,000 members of the
African Methodist Episcopal church.
convened in quadrennial session in
st. Johns A. NJ. E. church today. All
of the twelve bishops of the church
in this country are in attendance and
will participate in the deliberations,
which will last about month.
Three sessions q day will be held by
the conference, which will discuss
many matters of vital Importance to
the church at home and in foreign
lands.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
Prince Wilhelm Of Sweden Unit
ed in Marriage to Maria Pa
vIona Of Russia.
GUNS BOOM, BELLS PEAL
The Ceremony Is Marked by All the
Pomp and Brilliancy Of Europes
Most Stately Court-Many
Guests Present.

st, Petersburg, May 4.-Prince
Wilhelm of Sweden, second son of
King Gustave, the popular sailor
prince, who visited America in 1907,
was married yesterday afternoon to
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlona, cous-
in of the emperor of Russia, and
daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alex
androyitch. The ceremony took place
at Tsarskoe-Selo and was accompan-
led by all the pomp and brilliant
display of color characteristic of the
most stately court in Europe.
The day was marred by frequent
heavy falls OF snow, which, however.
failed to chill the enthusiasm of the
great crowds that gathered around
the palace to catch glimpse of the
emperor and other royal personages
and the arriving guests.
The crowds stood for hours in the
bleak and muddy palace square un-
til the conclusion of the ceremony.
In the evening great state banquet
was served, at which toasts were
drunk to the guests and the under
standing between Sweden and Rus
sia recently reached in the Baltic
agreement, to which yesterday s
wedding-the first in modern times
between the ruling houses of the two
countries-puts the seal.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
BAILEY TICKET
is ELECTED
Latest Returns Indicate a Small
Majority for Junior Senator
and Running Mates.
BAILEY GETS GERMAN VOTE
Germans in South Texas Seem to
Have Been Satisfied with Baileys
Position on the Prohi-
bition Question.

According to the latest returns
from the primary election held in
Texas Saturday to choose four dele
gates at large to the national demo-
cratic convention, which will meet
in Denver July Z, the ticket headed
by Senator Bailey was successful
over the ticket headed by Hon. Cone
johnson. The latest figures obtain
able give the Bailey ticket 10S,092
and the johnson ticket S9,993, max
ing the ma jority for the Bailey tick
ct S,099.
The Johnson ticket seems to have
carried the third, the fifth, the tenth
and the eleventh congressional dis
tricts.
All of the men who were candi-
dates for delegates at large on the
Johnson ticket seem to have carried
their home counties, the only doubt
being as to Harris county. The re-
turns from that county Sunday
night indicated that the Johnson
ticket had been successful. Smith,
Sohnson's S home county went for him
overwhelmingly. McLennan county,
the home of Cullen Thomas. also
gave a ma iority to the ticket on
which he ran, while Erath county,
the home of Hon Lee Young, also
showed a partiality for the Johnson
ticket. OF the candidates for dele
gates at large on the Bailey ticket,
Senator Bailey himself and perhaps
Mr.. Storey were the only ones to
carry their home counties; Judge
Brooks lost Dallas, while Tom Green
county, the home of Col. Andrew
Jackson Baker, joined with the enc
my
, Johnson county went for Hon
Cone Johnson, and it might be added
that box No in Cleburne, where
Hon. D. w. Odell and Judge William
Poindexter cast their ballots, also
gave a majority fer the Waco ticket
The town of Bailey, named after
him, gave Senator Bailey its majorl-
ty.
That Senator Bailey's majority IN
the state. considering the size OF the
vote, is an extremely slender one, sc
far as the present returns reveal the
fact may be shown in two ways. Fol
example the returns show that he
got only 54 1-2 per cent of the tota
vote cast. The same fact may be
shown by referring to the vote Civ
en- to him in the old Fifth district
Here his majorities were overwhelm
ing, and without the partiality which
it may be assumed he enjoyed II
those counties, it might have beeI
so small as to have left the resul
in doubt even till now. The old fiftl
district when Senator Bailey was it
representative was composed o
Rock wall, Collin, F'annin, Grayson
Denton, Montague, Cooke and Wise
These eight counties gave him a ma
iority of 10,94S, which is more thai
half of the whole majority.
The returns received Sunday nigh
only emphasize the fact shown clear
!ly the night before, that Senate
Bailey, with only one single excep
ton. won large majorities in al
those South Texas counties wher'
the German element is strong ant
where, therefore, sentiment agains
prohibition is predominant.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
SIX PEOPLE PERISH IN A FIRE
Five Members Of one Family Among
Victims Of the Flames.

New York, May Am early
morning fire in a four story brick
tenement at IT Humboldt street, a
thickly populated district of Brook
lyn, caused the death of six persons
and the serious injury of four others
yesterday. Every member of one
family, consisting of a mother and
four children, are among the dead.
There were many thrilling rescues
by police and fremen and it was
due to their brave work that the
death list was not larger.
A half dozen or more persons who
were trapped in the upper stories
were saved by jumping into life
nets.
The financial loss caused by the
fire is estimated at $40, 900.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
Total 3139 2402
So far as known Alsdorf is the

So far as known Alsdorf is the
oniy box in the county where no
election was held. The vote cast foi
each candidate at Crisp could not
be obtained, but it was ascertained
that the Bailey ticket carried the
box my majority of 80. Just the
majority is shown in the above ta-
BILE. Three other boxes have been
heard from since Saturday night
leaving only Leland, Pecan Grove,
Sterrett, Ensign, Wyatt and Avalon
yet to report The above list
will be revised after the official
count is made by the executive COM
mittee tomorrow.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
ANOTHER NIGHT RIDE OUTRAGE
Tobacco Outlaws Apply the Torch to
a Stable and Barn.

Clarksville, KY, May "A stable
and tobacco barn, with their con-
tents, including hay. corn, farming
implements and fertilizer, were
burned Saturday night on the farm
of Henry Wall near Fredonia, 10
miles from here. Night riders are
supposed to be responsible. Henry
Wall is brother of w. f. Wall, who
was almost financially ruined by
depredations of night riders, and
who, on their account, left Mont
gomery county. All telephone wires
into Fredonia were cut Saturday
night
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
Long Endurance Run.

Harrisburg, Pa, May with
many cars contesting, the second an
nual endurance run of the Motor
Club of Harrisburg was commenced
today. The route to be covered is 500
miles in length, and while there are
some bad stretches. it is as whole
the best that has ever been laid out
for an endurance run in this coun-
trV
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
Elect New President.

Newark, n. j., May members
of the New Jersey Automobile and
Motor club, the third organization
of its kind in the country in point OF
size, will hold an annual election to-
day. Angus Sinclair, the present
president, will retire, and will be
succeeded by Paul f. Heller, of this
city. w. Cleve Crosby of East Orange
is slated for the vice-presidency. Dr.
James R. English, of Newark, is the
slate nominee for treasurer while
A. B. Lemassena is named for sec
retary.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
Kentucky Derby.

Louisville, Ky, ay 4.-Some of
the classiest horses seen on Ken
lucky track in recent years will par
ade to the post when the bugle blows
tomorrow for a start of the thirty
fourth Kentucky Derby at historic
Churchhill Downs Hundreds of vis-
itors are pouring into the city today
to witness the great classic of the
turf, which has attracted national at
tention ever since 1875, when Aris-
tides, the little red horse, captur-
ed the first Kentucky Derby.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
Confederate Daughters.

Yazoo City, Miss, May 4.-As the
guests of the Jefferson Davis chap
ter, of Yazoo City, the United
Daughters of the Confederacy of the
Mississippi division began their an
nual convention here today. The ses-
sions will be continued through to-
morrow and Wednesday and prom
Use to be unusually interesting.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04

Washington, May 4.-First pay
ment of pensions to widows of vet
Grams, under the increase of from
IS to s12 month recently voted by
congress, was made today, This In
crease will result in the distribution
annually of several hundred thous-
and dollars among the pensioners
affected.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
SOciOlOoiStS in Session.

Atlanta, Ga, May "A large pro-
portion of the entire membership of
the Georgia Sociological Society is
at the Piedmont today for the an
nual convention of that organization.
Addresses will be made by the heads
of several state educational benevol-
ent institutions.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
Electrical Exposition.

Omaha, Neb, ay An electrical
exposition, the largest of its kind
ever held west of the Mississippi
was opened today in the Omaha Au-
ditorium by the Nebraska Electrical
Trades Association.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04
Hunter Accidentally Killed.

Hydro, Okla. May 4.-While
hunting, Wesley Brown was killed by
the accidental discharge of a gun,
the charge striking him in the abdor
men.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-04

We trade nice new refrigeratOrs,
furniture, stoves. etc, for old goods.
r. E. Moore Furniture Co. tt
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-10
WORK OF ORGANIZED CHARITY

The Charity Organization Society,
which operates in many different cities
from headquarters in New York, re-
ports that in the past year it carried
5.771 families at New York, compared
TO 1886 families the year before. 1t
is able to say that it has not refused
help to any family in need with no
tice At no time had it seemed advis-
able TO use artificial employment on
a large scale or to establish extraor-
binary agencies of relief.
The report says that the national
ization of social reform movements is
going on rapidly, and that the organ
lied Pittsburg survey, including the
typhoid fever investigation. the study
of San Francisco relief work, OF
workingmens insurance and of the
placing out of children, are some of the
evidences OF this new spirit This
general interest in such subjects offers
the best guarantee that we shall not
find it necessary to provide a govern,
ment pension for all our old men and
women, and that we may work With
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-10

increasing confidence of success
toward the ideal of every man and
woman of normal health and ability of
an independent life from start to
finish.
The report takes positive ground
against the bread line as the result of
$500 invitations to call on the Charity
Bureau which We're placed in the
hands of men in the bread lines. Only
1876 bread line men did call, and most
of those refused to work or to give in
formation about themselves so that
the experience indicated that not
many men looking for work were in
the bread lines, and confirms the con-
viction that the only way to stop the
bread line is to stop the bread
There was large increase in the num-
Der of women applicants for work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-10
RAILROADS SHOW DECREASE.

Acccrdin- to the report of the state
railroad commission just filed with
the governor. although Iowa railroads
have earned more this year than ever
before, they have spent more than
the increase and their net earnings
are less than previous years. Wages
also have been less than before. Leav.
Ing out the Great Western, which has
not yet filed its report, wages paid to
railroad men during the year covered
was s7,905, or S612 less than the year
before. There were 10000 fewer en-
ployes and the gross amount of re-
duced wages was aobut 80 per cent.
Total earnings of railroads except
ing the Great Western We're S63 ,0O0.-
600 as against s60,O00,OO0 for the year
1906. Expenses were $4,000, 900,
compared with s50,0O0,O0O for the pre-
ceding year, making the net earnings
about S3,000,000 less. During the year
211 people were killed and 1850 In
jured. This is an increase in the num-
Der killed and decrease in the num-
Der injured.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-10
DIPHTHERlA IN THE MAILS.
Bottle Filled With Disease Cultures
Sent Through Mails With
Loose Wrappings.

DIES MONIES, Iowa. Dec. 10.-To
discover the identity of some person
who through criminal negligence has
endangered the health and lives III
hundreds of Iowa homes, the state
board of health officials have solicited
the assistance of government officials.
Secretary Louis Thomas yesterday
received through the mail a package
loosely wrapped, containing an ordin-
airy vaseline bottle corked but not
sealed. Within this was SOME cotton
batting and on the outside label that
read, Throat culture, supposed to be
diphtheria." This had come through
the United States mail. The postmark
on the outside was so blurred that the
point from which it was sent could not
be ascertained The label and out
side wrapper, however, have been dis
infected and the handwriting will be
placed in the hands of detectives as a
clue.
DR.. Thomas says that it is probable
the person SO negligent in sending the
culture in this way did not even at
tempt to disinfect the package. which
probably came directly from the sick
room. 1t is possible, MIR. Thomas says.
that the hundreds of letters in the
mail pouch with this package were In
fected with the dread disease that
causes SO many deaths and is fought
so desperately by the state board
through physicians.
DR.. Thomas says if he can ascer.
tain the identity of the sender of this
package he will prosecute him to the
limit. Besides being guilty of criminal
negligence the sender violated the
government postal laws in sending
glass bottle through the mail and also
in sending infected matter through the
mail.
This is not the first time such
thing has occurred, but is the first time
anyone ever sent a 6iphtheria culture
so. Other times specimens of scarlet
fever have been received. So far the
board has received no letter that would
disclose the sender and the motive of
sending it unexplained cannot be con-
ceived. 1t is through misapprehension
that the package was sent here. The
state board here has nothing to do
with tests. Such are sent to the state
meteorological laboratory at Iowa City,
but only in proper test tubes furnished
by the department to reputable repre-
sentatives in the important cities.
These are then sent by express.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-10

sion, just published. 1t shows that the
total cost of the canal to date. includ-
ing the $29,o00,0 900 appropriated for
the year 1909, is s120,964, ass. With
an average OF 43,057 workers on the
pay roll, the death rate per thousand
was 1882, less than half of the pre-
vious year The decrease was espec-
tally among the blacks, and this testi-
fies to improved sanitation. During
the year 929 patients in the hospitals
died out of 27,523 treated. Machinery
in use at the end of the year included
101 steam shovels. thirty American
and French locomotives. 3,451 Ameri-
can cars and 659 French cars, twenty
cranes, thirty unloaders, nine track
shutters, eighteen pile drivers, twenty
three earth spreaders and forty-six
unloading plows. All the settlements
were supplied with electric lights,
numbering 1856 sixteen-candle lights
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-10

Congressman Walter l. Smith of this
state has introduced in the house a
bill that is of considerable Importance
in connection with appropriations. 1t
provides briefly that when the secre-
tary of the treasury finds that esti
mates OF appropriations needed for the
ensuing fiscal year exceed the esti-
mates for the revenue in the same
period. he shall advise the President
of the fact and the President in turn
shall advise congress what estimates
for appropriations can best be reduced
without injury to the public service or.
If the estimates can not be cut. what
loans or new taxes can be raised in
order to get more revenue That
would throw responsibility for heavy
appropriations directly on the admin
istrative end OF the government.
Judge Smith thinks it would tend to
economy Washington edvices say
that the bill is attracting much atten-
tion there
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-10
TO OUR ABSENT LOVED ONES.

Come home, dear Tim, come home to
us now,
The clock in the steeple strikes one
The fats in the fire, the councils re-
nigged,
He's jealous is Off; you're undone
Come home, B'rer Tahiti, come home
to us now.
The clock in the steeple strikes two:
There's nothin' doin' in the payment
of bills
And it's twenty and three for you.
Come home, both of yez, come home to
US now,
The clock in the steeple strikes
three;
The longer you stay the more you'll
be out,
Since refreshments" no longer are
free
Come home, all of yez, come home to
us now,
The clock in the steeple strikes four:
Just chuck your expense bills into the
fire,
And resolve to get even, and more.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-10
He Has Never Been "eentIed..

Marshalltown Times-Republican
1 President Roosevelt makes mistakes
not serious mistakes however. Per
haps in the opinion of great many
good people the President falls short
of the dignity which they feel should
appertain to the President of the
United States when he gets down to
brass tacks and tells certain newspa-
pers, interests and individuals what
he thinks of them. He gets mad. good
and mad, and acts like man who is
| angry. When he has got through with
his opponent there are strips of cloth
ing, pieces of hide and bushels of
epithet scattered all over the front
yard. 1t does lack dignity, it is far
off from our old ideals of states
manship,' gained by observation of the
poseur with one hand under his coat
tails and the other in the bosom of his
vest; it lacks the calm of the senate
/ and approaches the turmoil of the
house; but it is satisfactory, satisfac.
tory to Roosevelt who is as much
Roosevelt as he is President. and to
the general public, which is backing
Roosevelt.
Roosevelt doesn't say. a regret that
the gentleman who edits and the cap
ltallsts who own these mighty medi-
ums of publicity published in New
York and Indianapolis, should have
been deceived into making charges
which are largely unfounded in fact"
Not Roosevelt. He says they lied and
calls for them to show the proof OF
their scandalous assertions or turn
their tanks to the branding iron. He
gees on without mincing of words and
tells the public why these interests
Duy newspapers to use as they use at
torneys and hire editors as they make
corporation officials and bank borrow
ers out of Office boys Notice that
when Theodore Roosevelt calls man
or a gang hard names he lays off his
coat and prepares to make good RICH.
then and there
1t isn't nice for the President TO call
names, but the President has never
I Deen classified as mice" individually
or officially. 1t isn't dignified, but a
President who hunts wildcats under
the camera, plays tennis and carries
the iethal punch behind his boxing
| gloves is not stickler over dignity
! The truth is Theodore is rude when he
gets excited, but he's honest. un.
afraid and dangerous to crooks clan
derers and corporation hold-up men.
He has done things that make these
classes hate him and pursue him and
his administration But they only
chase about SO far.
If we were to make choice, which
would We prefer, Teddy. the rough
rider and his accomplishment. or a
real dignifed sort without energy? The
l bucking bronco or a hack which has
been "gentled" until anybody or inter.
| est can ride him?