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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-22
COL. ]. HAM LEWIS
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Chicago Mans Boom Is Started at
Georgia State COnvention-Win
Nominate Joseph NJ. Brown.

ATLANTA, Ca, June 22.-Twenty-five
strong. the Chatham county delegation
10 the Democratic State convention ar
rived this morning with a well-devel-
oped Vice Presidential boom up their
sleeves. The man whom the Savannah
delegation will spring on the Democratic
party as MI Bryan's running mate is
James Hamilton Lewis. of Illinois. a na-
tive OF Georgia.
It is the purpose c. the Chatham dele
CATION 10 vote for noninstructed delega-
ton to Denver. either in the choice Of a
candidate for President or for Vice Pres
ident. but an effort viii be made to
boost Mr.. Lewis cause at Denver
Judge H G. Twiggs, a member Of the
Savannah delegation, will place in NOM
ination. tomorrow the name Of Joseph NJ.
Brown for governor.
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GOV. SWANSON
TO SECOND BRYAN
Virginia Executive Accepts Invita-
ton to Make Speech Al
Denver Convention.

RICHMOND, Va. June 22.-GOvernor
Swanson. of this state. viii make a
speech se,ondIlg the nomination OF Will
liam Jennings Bryan for the Presidency
in Denver.
He rece. we'd an in lttatiOn today to make
the speech and accepted Immediately.
The no:n,aating speech will be made by
the city attorney Of Omaha, and there
Will be several seconding speeches
Governor Swanson, who is widely
known as an orator, served in Congress
with Bryan when the latter was a mem
Der Of the House, and the two men be-
came warm friends at that time. There
IS political significance in the invitation
70 the governor when II is remembered
that Virginia was widely reported 20 be
a Stata which would be for Johnson, Of
Minnesota, for the nomination, instead
of for Bryan.
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Grants Son Is Pleased
With TaftS Nomination

Los ANGELES, Cal. June 22--'Taft
and Sherman certainly are TO my Hk-
ing." declared T. s Grant, jr., OF san
Diego, yesterdf =. al the Van Nuy's
Hotel The l. ference in Mr.. Taft's
speech at the tomb OF General Grant
on Decoration Day, that the great gen
eral once had been addicted 10 drink.
is not considered by Mr.. Grant as meant
for a rejection on the character OF his
father.
My sister, Mrs Nellie Grant Sartor-
Is, was present when Air. Tart deliver
ed his speech said Mr.. Grant and
she has informed me that there was
nothing whatever Objectionable in any
thing that was said by the Secretary Of
War. on the contrary, we believe that
Mr.. Taft Only intended 20 pay the high
est tribute to our father
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SENATORS KILLED,
REPORT OF WRECK

BATON ROUGE. La. June IA
wreck occurred on the Baton Rouge
and Eastern road this morning.
State Representative Jones. Of Liv-
ingston. and several State senatorS are
reported killed
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WEATHER REPORT.

High pressure persists in the SOUTH
east. and warm weather therefore con-
tinues east of the Rocky mountains. ex-
cept in the Northwest. There were
local showers with thunderst orms in
the upper Ohio valley. the middle, south
Atlantic, and Gulf States and the North
west. In the central valleys OF the West
and Southwest the weather was fair
There Will be little or no change from
present conditions in the East and
South during the next two DAYS and
continued warm and generally fair
The winds along the middle Atlantic
coast will be light and variable: on the
south Atlantic coast light west terly, be-
coming variable, and on the east Gulf
coast light and variable.
Steamers departing today for Euro
pean ports will have light variable winds
with fair weather TO the Grand Banks.
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JURORS LOCKED UP
FOR THIRD TINE
Men Sitting in Land Trial
Have Been Under Key
Seventy-two Hours.

At 1 o'clock this afternoon the twelve
men who have sat as a jury in the case
agains tS;rederick a. Hyde. John A.
Benson. Henry P. Dimond, and Jonst H
Schneider. charged with obtaining land
from the Government by frauds. had
been under lock and key for seventy
two hours in a vain effort TO reach a
verdict
When the jury reported TO Justice
Stafford an hour before that il was
hopelessly divided. Il had been expect
ed that II would be discharged from
further consideration or the case. but
the justice declared that the charges
against the defendants we're so serious.
and the case was so important in every
respect that he felt obliged 10 again lock
M the Jury.
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Yale Wen Whoop It Up
For "Big Bill Taft

NEW HAVEN. Conn. June 22.-'HeI-
10. BiIl,' is the way Old Eli viii greet
William H Taft. Secretary Of War,
and candidate for the Presidency, when
he reaches here today.
Since early morn hundreds Of under
graduates have been parading The
streets and greeting every picture OF
Taft with resounding yells OF Taft,
Taft. Big Bu TAFT
And when that portly member Of
the Boys Of IS arrives. he will get
. slam-bang welcome. hearty enough
to almost convince him that the way
Is clear to the White House There
are TO be no set parades or receptions
for big Riu Taft" New Haven and
the men Of Yale viii simply shake his
hand and yell. yell, yell. And when he
reaches his class headquarters. in Elm
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NEW YORK SUFFERS
IT'S HOTTEST DAY
NEW YORK, June 22.-Hottest.

That was the adjective reserved in
the weather bureau to describe today.
The mercury began TO climb at 6
o'clock this morning, when it was 54 de-
grees- BY 9 O'Clock it was % degrees;
an hour later il had jumped TO So de-
grees, with no indication OF a halt. and
al II o CLOCK II was steadily mounting.
The weather bureau temperatures
were from three 10 I've degrees bower
than those registered by street ther-
momoters.
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ATTACKS BLIND GIRL,
IS GIVEN ONE YEAR
Maximum Penalty Given
Englishman-SeriouS
Charge Preferred.

Charged with making an attack last
night on Grace voorhees,, a fourteen
year-old blind girl. Murdoch MCGOWAN
was sent TO Jail for one year by Justice
Kimbau in the Police Court this morn
ing MCGOWAN, who IS thirty-five years
old. is an Englishman, but has lived
in this country for several years.
The girl IS the daughter OF Mrs Flor
ence Vorhees. who keeps a boarding
house ST 81 Missouri avenue northwest
Miss voorhees,. who has been blind
since her birth. was the principal wit
ness against the man.
Girl Tells Her Story.
7 was sitting on the porch OF our
Ecue yesterday afternoon" she said on
the witness stand. when MCGOWAN.
who boards with US. came out and sat
n the chair beside me
He has lived in our house for sew
eral months and although have never
seen him, he has always treated me
kindly and liked him
Il had no idea that he meant any
harm. until he put his hands on me and
pulled me toward him. I broke away
and ran to my mother.
I was SO frightened that 7 forgot
about being blind and paid no attention
to the dangers that confronted me as
I rushed from the porch
Il don't know how It was that I
didn't fail and hurt myself
Called for Help.
Mrs. MCGOWAN said that her daughter
called TO her for assistance. but when
she reached the child the daughter was
so frightened she could not toll at first
what had happened. The mother then
recited 10 the court the story her
daughter had told her.
By the time the police Of the Sixth
precinct had been notified OF the attack
MCGOWAN had disappeared. Policeman
Sweeney searched for the fugitive
nearly all night. and found him early
this morning on a bench in the grounds
Of the Smithsonian Institution.
MCGOWAN Denies Charge.
MCGOWAN denied the charge Of the
blind girl. when arraigned in court this
morning.
7 am a subject OF the King Of Eng
land" he said with a show OF hauteur.
II am under the protection OF the Brit
ish consul. and shall appeal to him for
assistance. I am not guilty OF this
charge. and when the Kings representa-
tives hear of Il they viii see 70 Il that
I am cleared ard set free"
MCGOWAN dwet with much emphasis
on his British citizenship. and spoke
with an air Of one who expected THAI
20 cover all his actions The court
however. was not impressed and i'm
posed q years sentence.
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Many Ask for Jobs.

II may be said on behalf OF the Presi-
dent that he does not intend 20 make
a large grist Of appointments just be-
fore the administration finishes the
work
The rumor that Secretary Loeb may
be chosen chairman Of the Republican
National Committee 20 manage the Taft
campaign may be dismissed as ground
less. Had Mr.. Loeb ceslred the place
the announcement would have been Off
cially made long before this But ne
does not want the Job for more reasons
than one II he took Il the charge
would al once be made that the Presi-
dent was debating the can paign," and
Mr.. Taft's candidacy might suffer some
injury as the result The President in
tends &c keep his hands of the political
helm this summer
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Excellent place to Store Furniture

is in our freproof storage warehouse. Ev-
eryIhing will receive the best of care.
Washington Storage Co.. Inc, 4o1 >. Cap
ADV.
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End Not in Sight.

Seventy-two hours Of almost constant
deliberation on the subject Of tbe Im-
nense land frauds charged against The
defendants had failed to bring the jury
10 the slightest appearance Of an agree
ment either In favor Of or against the
defendants. and unless there is a con-
Dlete change IN the opinions of nearly
half the members ship OF the jury there
Will be no verdict and OF the twelve men
may remain under lock and key for an
additional seventy-two hours.
The case was finished last Friday. so
far as the lawyers and cotrt was con-
cerned, and at 1 O'clock the jury re-
tired for their deliberations. Since that
time they have struggled night and day
o. reach a verdict I ey hCd the dis
advantage OF being bout equally df-
vided in their opinions, rumor having
IL that on Saturday night they stood
seven for acquittal and five for con-
viction. and that there was little or
no hops Of getting together was indf-
Gated ar noon today when the iurv ~
ported to Justice Staffrd.
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ROWERS' PRACTICE
HALTED BY HEAT

PoUGHKEEPSIE. n. Y. June a.
Terrific heat on the river here today III
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Newspaper Correspondent
Will Be Secretary of Ex-
position Commission.
TAFT INVITED
TO SPEND WEEK
Few Appointments Will Be Made.
No Foundation for Loeb Rumor
About Craftsmanship.

OYSTER BAY, June 22-President
Roosevelt announced today that John
Caran O'Loughlin. OF Washington. he'd
been appointed secretary OF the Japa-
nese Exposition Commission O'Lough-
lin is a well-knoWn newspaper CORE
spondent and is acceptable 70 the Tokyo
government.
The President fairly got down 10 his
summer swing OF work and play today
Secretary Loeb brought 10 Sycamore
Hin large sack fuE OF executive cor
.respOndence and Government documents.
and the President devoted about two
hours 20 disposing Of them. After that
he went for a horseback ride out the
Cove road with two OF his children.
The Presidents mail is now burdened
with many appealing letters from
ofhceseekers. who are making frantic
efforts 10 get a job before the President
leaves the White House.
Taft Invited for Week.
one OF the first acts OF Mr.. Loeb was
10 send a telegram 10 Mr.. Taft inviting
him TO come TO Sycamore HIH and
spend a week There are many i'm
portant matters concerning the cam
paign which the President wants 70 dis
cuss with the nominee.
The fact that the President waited
only q little over a day since coming
here to send for Mr.. Taft seemed TO
dispose OF the theory that Mr.. Roose-
Welt is 10 take little part in the coming
campaign.
indications are plenty that Oyster
Pay viii play an important part in the
election A significant move is the in
Staliing OF Secretary Loeb and his fam
Iy at the SeaWanhaka Yacht Club on
Center Island.
Mr. Loeb last year took up quarters
In the Townsend house. about a mile
from Sycamore Hil. and he drove TO
and from the village several times &
day. lie was easily accessible 20 Wis
Itors. whatever their vrTand. at ali times
or the day and night
All that has been changed this year,
ana u looks as If plans had been made
70 maintain q degree OF privacy with
regard 20 Official dOings
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Foreman Makes Statement.

Foreman Alfred 3. Dent, stated that
the jury found IT impossible 20 agree.
Us It q matter OF law on which You
wish to be instructed?'' asked Justice
stafford
mo. sir" the foreman answered. 1--WE
seem to understand your charge thor
oughly"
Tho court then impressed. upon the
Jury the necessity for reaching a ver-
dict il such a thing Wee possible he
pointed out that Il was only fair to the
defendants and to the Government that
the case be terminated
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May Change Opinion.

"If an honestly entertained opinion
can be changed after YOU retire TO your
rooms 10 once more undertake the con-
sideration o. this ease.r' said the Justice,
1t would be in the interests OF the de-
PENDANTS for any OF you 10 change your
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TEMPERATURE.
Weather Bureau. Affleck,
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The Washington herald., 1908-05-17

ernor OF Missouri has made the name Of
! David R. Francis fairly well known
throughout the country when its owner
was called 10 President CleveIands Cabi-
net as successor to Hoke Smith in the
Department Of the Interior His next na-
| tionaily important job was that of boss
ing the building of the mountaineering
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and it
was while he was up to his ears in the
details Of this stupendOus task In 1903
that big Eastern paper announced his
candidacy for the Presidency the follow
ing year. Before Mr. Francis put a dam
per on the enthusiasm of political friends
by declaring that he felt he had pledged
his time and energy TO the exposition, his
availability had been pretty widely dis
eussed by politicians Of both great par
ties
Joseph Benton Foraker, senior Senator
from Ohio, has numbered a Presidential
lightning rod among his possessions since
the middle SOS. when he was serving his
second term as Republican executive Of
the Buckeye State. His Ohio enemies
have never grown weary Of charging that
he secretly nourished high hopes that the
convention Of lSSS would swing TO him
from John Sherman, as the convention
held eight years before, had sensationauy
stampeded from Sherman, Grant. and
Blaine to Garfield However that may
be, Gov. Foraker, after the fifth ballot
had been taken and the convention had
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NICKNAMES OF CITIES.
Some Are FancifuI and of Curious
Origin.


Little Rock Is the City Of Roses. from
the ficral growths which adorn it.
Racine, Wis, is known as the Bell City,
from the nature Of the articles made
there
Lafayette. in the same State, is the Star
City. from the routes which rsdiate from
il as a center.
The Shoe City is Lowell. Mass, for a
like reason, as is Holyoke, in the same
State, the Paper City.
Detroit is the City Of the Straits. from
its geographical situation on the border
between Michigan and Canada.
indianapolis is sometimes called the
Railroad City. from its central situation
In regard 10 railroad connections.
Pekin, Ill, rejoices in the title Of the
Celestial City, from the fact that it was
named for the capital Of the Chinese en-
pire.
Hannibal, Mo, Is known as the Bluff
City, from its site overlooking the A[is-
souri, River, and not from any other sig
nificance of abe word.
Alton, ILL.,, has the curious distinction
Of Tasselburgh, from the fact that many
acres of corn IN tassel in summer can be
viewed from it,
Duluth, MIMI, bears the Gickname 0f
the Zenith City Of the Unsalted Seas.
given to 1t from its situation at the head
Of the waters Of Lake Superior
Another city which derives its name
from its situation is North Adams. Mass.
called the Tunnel City, from the fact
that it is at one end Of that great bore"
the Hoosac tunnel. which was so MANY
years in course Of construction until its
length Of about four miles was CON-
Melted
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Presidential nomination, and it was a
bitter disappointment to him when Bryan
got the coveted honor.
Though he was stiH a Republican OF
the silver variety when the Democratic
national convention Of 1896 met in
July MT Teller on the first ballot
taken by it, received eight votes. a Gu
rious sort of political distinction due
to his advocacy of the cause of silver.
which. as every American knows. was
enthusiastically championed by the Dem
ocratic convention.
Teller Once I'm Field.
Years before the silver question be-
came paramount, Mr. Teller. when he
was President Arthur's Secretary Of In
terror, ran up q Presidential rod for the
first time. Until he walked out of the
Republican convention in 1895 he did not
cease TO hope that some day that party
would call him as leader.
Among members OF the Upper Branch
Of Congress who now have or have had
Presidential rods Up. Senator John W
Daniel, OF Virginia, Is rather a recent
conner. Thomas F. Ryan. Of New York
and Virginia, has been charged with in
stigating the Daniel talk with the ulterior
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FIattery ImperiIs a Nation

A lay sevmon on the preachers text.
All is vanity" may be found in Carl
Sehurz's article in the May McClure's.
He wrote:
Among my friends in Washington
there were different opinions as to how
the striking change in President John
sons attitude had been brought about
Some one told me that during the sum-
mer the White House had been fairly pe-
sieged by Southern men and women
OF high social standing, who had told the
president that the only element of trou-
bic in the South consisted OF A lot OF
tanatical abolitionists who excited tas
negroes with all sorts Of dangerous no.
uons, and that all would be we'll II he
would only restore the Southern STATE
government as quickly as possible accord
ing to his own plan as laid down in thu
North Carolina proclamation. and that
ne was great man to whom they looked
up as their savior. It was now thought
that Mr. Johnson. the plebeian who be-
fore the war had been treated with up-
disguised contempt by the slave-holding
aristocracy. could not withstand the
subtle hattery Of the same aristocracy
when they fOcked around him as hum
bic supphants cajoling his vanity
I went to work al my general report
with the utmost care. Ny statements Of
fact were invariably accompanied by the
sources Of my information. my testimony
being produced in the language Of nv
informants. I scrupulOusly avoided ex-
aggeration and cultivated sober and mod
crate forms OF expression. It gives me-
some satisfaction now 10 say that mona
OF those statements of fact has ever. been
effectually contrOverted. I cannot speak
with the same assurance Of my conclu-
sions and recommendations, for they were
matters, not Of knowledge. but of judg-
ment"
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squeaI.y shoe. in pemnnd.

From the New York Press.
Small automatic pumps. very ingenious
ly contrived, spirited air in between The
layers Of the soles of each finished pair
of shoes.
That beats me, said the visitor. Il
never saw air put in shoe soles before.
Pneumatic like that; are they springy?"
No, they're noisy, answered the fore
man Of the Lynn factory. These shoes
are for the export trade. They 90 to
Africa. A native African judges the white
mans shoes by their squeak. The louder
they squeak. the finer the article. In
fact, the native won't wear nom
squeaking, silent shoe It is wind be-
tween the soles that makes shoes squeak.
Put in enough and your footgear viii be
as noisy as two pigs under fence. We
by adding this cheap wind TO our product
Increase It's value more than ha,id-sew-
ing throughout would"
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seIf-acquiring an Art.
m the San Francisco Chronicle.

From the San Francisco ChTonicls.
Nobody ever told me that I was a
good dancer" declared Edward NJ.
Greenway, leader of cotiilions. But III
tell you a compliment young woman
did pay me OnCe She said: You took
ne through that crowd without a col
lision and without any one treading on
my skirt
well. never Tad a dancing lesson in
my life. But l used to practice danc,og
in the days when women wore those great
long trains, and it was not considered
good form to pick them up. They trail
ed behind several yards Those were
the days when you had to guide and keep
moving with your partner so as to keep
that train following gracefully"
But how did you practice?"
fused 20 tie two sheets to an ordinary
chair ani then dance in and out among
a dozen chairs scattered over a dance
floor"
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COIN SWEATING.
An Illegal Practice Which Has
Fallen Into Disuse.

An Illegal Practice Which Has
Fallen Into Disuse.
From Tid-bts
Closely allied to the making OF coun.
terfeIt coins, and usually combined with
that nefarious trade, is what is known
as sweating" which requires consid-
erabIe skill to accomplish successfully.
A rubber mold is used. into which q
gold coin 10 be sWeated Is introduced and
help with q clip.
Copper wires having been adjusted, the
coin is immersed in a bath OF cyanide OF
potassium and an electric battery set
going. The action of the electricity upon
the coin In the acid uniformly sweats
the metal-that Is 10 say. causes so much
Of it to become detached. This process
is gone through with large number Of
coins. and the gold deposit thus obtained
Is extracted from the acid
1t is for the purpose Of detecting the ex-
istence Of such reduced coins that bank
ers weigh gold coins in a balance. and
il one is in the scale it viii Immediately
be shown by the Indicator. The light
coin is then taken out. and, whatever the
shortage represents, that amount the Gus
toner VIII have 10 make up or be fined
But. all things considered, sweating is
but poor business, says Mr.. II. l.
Adam, In his interesting book, THE
Story of Crime" and evidently It IS
thought so by the criminal fraternity.
for it has dwlndled TO a mere nothing.
In 1871, in the annual report OF the Mas
ter of the Mint, the official chemist stat
ed that during the year he had had only
two soyereigns submitted TO him which
haC undergone the process nf sweating
A sovereign weighs 12S 27447 grains. and
the limit Of error in the weight is o.
of a grain, from which Il may readily be
gathered that sweating cannot now be a
very lucrative business.