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The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
NO ADVANCE IN
FREIGHT RATES
PROTESTS AGAISST PROPOSED
INCREASE EFFEcTVE-coM.
MERGE COMMISSION NOT IN
FORMED.

Washington, June 5-Ihate wi
be no general increase In freight
rates by the railroads in the trunk
territory on July /, as threatened by
the traffic managers Of the various
lines at their meeting in New York.
| Under the railroad raw ali new rates
| or changes in old rats must be FL d
with the interstate ceommerce com
mission thirty days before they go
into effect. No notice of general
increase In rates has been filed with
the commission Members OF the
commission do not think there will be
any general increase
Following the announcement tf the
traffic managers a great protest went
up to the railroads, ine Interstate
commerce commission, and event to
the president, who, it was said, had
tentatively agreed that the, adyaocA
might be made without fear of attack
by the government
Soon after this protest became so
serious the department of Justice be-
gan its suit against the New Haven
merger and Immediately follow ng
this, Interstate Commerce Commits
sioner Clements gave out an author
lied statement that the commission
had not agreed to permit any general
advance of rates, but that 1t would be
much more likely to prosecute the
roads Under the antitrust act IL such
a raise were undertaken than 10
acquiesce in the advance
These utterly unexpected NANTES.
tations of hostility are credited at the
interstate commerce commission
Offices with deciding the railroads not
make the advance. Business condi
tions have been improving also and
political conditions are supposed to |
have played some part In the matter |
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
PRINCE IS INVOLVED
Witnesses Connect Prince George OF
servia With Alleged Conspiracy
Against Montenegro.

Cettinie, June Sensational testi-
|mony, involving Crown Prince George
OF Servia in conspiracy against 'Moa-
tenegro, has been given at the trial
which is now proceeding here of
thirty-two prisoners charged with rev
olutionary activity In connection with
the discovery of a store of bombs IN
Cettinje last Year Two of the wit
nesses declared that the bombs In
question had been manufactured by
Seryian artillery officers on the direct
order of Prince George, the intention
being to use them against the Monten.
egfo government with the object of
overthrowing theexisting regime.
This testimony has aroused the
greatest excitement, and the rupture
of diplomatic relations between Mon
tenegro and Servia is expected as
result.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
SULLIVAN SAVES GIRL
From Marrying Negro--New York
Tammany Leader Tears Up
License in Wrath.

New York June 5-'L.ttla Tim
Sullivan" the East Side Tammang
leader, constituted himself commit
tee Of one today 10 prevent pretty
young white girl from marrying a
negro after they had obtained a mar.
riage license In the city hall The
girl lives in Sulliyan's district and
he refused to give her name When
he saw her and her companion turn
away from the license bureau his In
terest was aroused. He asked to see
the license, and when 1t was handed
40 him he tore 1t to bits.
You have made a mistake" he
said to the negro, who had clenched
his ffsts threateningly This little
girl lives In my district and she is
under my protection If you want q
new marriage certificate ycu viii
have to mandamus the license clerk. Il
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
DAMAGE BY CYCLONES
About Twenty Houses Near Franklin,
Neb., Destroyed and One Man
Instantly Killed

Franklin, Neb, June 5.-Two
cyclones passed just east CT this
place causing one death and doing
great damage to property.
Henry Madison, who was returning
home from town, vas caught in the
center of the storm and killed in
stnatly. Three of the Tucker family
Were badly hurt. Probably twenty
houses within five miles of town are
completely wrecked.
At Fairfield thirty residences were
damaged, some badly: the Congrega-
gational and Christian churches de-
stroyed Baptist church damaged and
the high school building party de-
molished
A number of persons were hurt.
much live stock killed aud crops
ruined
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
VERY SLOW RETURNS
Two Years 10 Complete Recount Of
New York EIeetion-Hearst
=. Uses Wireless. q.

New York. June 5.--A record, of a
|sort, in reporting election returns was
made last week when William II.
Hearst, on board an ocean liner, re
|eelved by wireless reports the recount
OF votes in his log drawn out fight TO
prove that the was elected mayor of
New York In 1905, Two years and a
half in reporting voting results puts
the Metropolis long way behind the
most backward Of back country dis
tricts In this respect At the rate
at which the recount is progressing il
is estimated that something like two
years will be required fer it's compile
tion in case all the ballot boxes are
opened. This will carry 1t well beyond
the expiration of the present may
orally term so that Mr.. Hearst Is like
ly to receive only an empty honor
even if he establishes his old claim.
NVMaswfi epp b Fs-
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
SUITS ARE BEGUN
ny Government Against Coal Garry
ing Roads For Violation OF
Commodity Clause.

Philadelphia. June 5.-Mcre prompt
ly than was expected the United
States government began suit today
against coal carrying railroads un
der the commodities clause of the
act to regulate cocnmerce, by filing
in the United States court here a
bin in equity and petition for An
alternative writ of mandamus which
was granted and will be argued on
June 16.
Seven bills of equity and seven
petitions for alternative writs of man,
damus were filed against as many
railroad companies, the Pennsylvania
Reading, Central of New Jersey,
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
Delaware and Hudson, Erie and the
Lehigh Valley.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
GREAT DAMAGE
BY HEAVY RAIN
EVERY RIVER IN SOUTHERN NE.
6RASkA OUT OF ITS BANKS
BUTTE, MONT, CUT OFF
FROM OUTSIDE WORLD.

Fairbury, Neb,. June 5.-Heavy
rains are reported all over the South
ern part, of Nebraska tonight. Every
stream Is out of its banks, farm prop
.erty in the bottom lands is badly dam.
aged and railroad traffic is blocked
The washout Of bridge in the south.
ern part of this city has compelled
suspension of traffic on the main line
of the Rock Island road, and all
trains on the st. Joe and Grand Is
land road between Fairbury and Mary
vile, Kas., have been annulled.
The rainfall in this city last night
varied 5 to inches.
Near Janesen, threelear-old child
of Joseph Flaming, a farmer, was
drowned while fleeing from the food
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
TROLLEYS COLLIDE
: AND EIGHT PEOPLE
KILLED INSTANTLY

Annapolis. Md. June 5.--In a head.
Oh collision between two special cars
on the Washington, Baltimore and An
napolis Electric Railway tonight eight
persons were killed outright and a
score Of others seriously injured, some
perhaps fatally. The collision was
due TO a confusion or orders
The dead are Richard Norton, OF
Baltimore; A II. Scultz of Baltimore
Police Patrolman Scriebef; An un
identified woman. Zac O Neal OF New
YORK, motorman. Ruth Slaughter. six
year-old daughter oil General Traffic
Manager Slaughter of the road; j. w
Mcdaniel. of Baltimore. George White
OF Baltimore.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
DRAINAGE CANAL
IS CONSIDERED
BY WATERWAYS COMMITTEE IN
REPORT TO CANADIAN PAR
LAMENT.
GREAT LAKES LEVELS
Canai--Wouid Cost Much TO Re
Store depth in u. S. and
Canadian Harbors.

Ottawa Ont, June "a report b,
the international Waterways commit
tee was made 80 the Canadian parlia
ment today. 1t deals with the effect
on the great lakes leyeles of the con,
templated enlargement of the Chicago
Drainage Canal the preservation of
the scenic, beauty of Niagara Falls and
the expectation of power from Canada
to the United Estates.
In reference to the drainage canal
the commission recommends that the
government of the United States pro
hibit the diversion of more than ten
thousand cubic feet of water per sec.
ond for the canal that amount being
considered sufficient for the sanitary
purposes of the city for all time, and
providing for the largest navigable
waterway from Lake Michigan to the
Mississippi river, which has been con
sidered by congress.
The amount by which the mein
level Is lowered by the discharge of
ten thousand cubic feet through the
canal Is estimated at about six inches
in Lakes Huron and Michigan and Ave
n Lake Erie and four in Lake Ontario.
Any further diversion, the commits
sioners say, would mean the expendi
ture OF very amount of money to
restore the depth in both American
and Canadian harbors, and to main
tain a uniform draft of IA feet in the
Canadian Canal system.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
HUGE FINES PAID
Three Packing Companies and One
Railroad Hand Over $4,000 Each
Judgment Rendered in 1906.

Kansas City. June 5-Three pack.
Ing companies and one railroad com
pany convicted in 1906 of rebating
and sentenced to pay fines aggregating
sixty-one thousand dollars today hand
ed TO the clerk of the United States
a check for the total amount OF their
fines plus costs.
Each fine was fer $4,000. These
concerns paid: Armour, Cudahy and
Swift Packing companies ana the Bur.
lington railroad
The convictions were the first i'm
portant ones under the interstate
commerce law. The packers and the
railroad We're convicted and fined IN
June 1906, In the federal court at
Kansas City.
The judgments were affirmed Ia
the United States supreme court.
There Ii still a fine of equal amount
unpaid against the Morris packing
company OF this city.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
RACE WAR AT WEST BADEN.

West Baden. Ind. June 5.-ARace
trouble is threatened here over an at
tempt to drive the negroes out. A
hundred men stormed the European
hotel where so negroes, imported as
walters, were replacing the girls of
the town. Dynamite exploded and
partly wrecked the hotel. Many ne
groes are departing. Others are arm
ing and declare they will defend them
selves.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
SHAH FLEEs IN FEAR
Persa's Ruler Heard Plot Was Belru
Laid to Attack Him--Excite-
nent at Teheran.

st. Petersburg. June 5.-A dispatch
received here today from Teheran
says reports that an attack against
the Shah had been planned caused
his majesty to. go to Bageshakh Pal
ace, summer residence outside THE
city, accompanied by numerous
retinue. There Is considerable excite
ment at Teheran on account Of the
uncertainty OF the political situation.
pending definite reorganization of
the cabinet,
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
Mr.. Burrows Speech.
Nj. Burrows said in part:

| MI BURROWS SAID IN part:
Surely words never possessed more
power and grace than these which
adorn the tablet we are met here To
dedicate and never were words spok-
en- at more fitting time and place; ;
spoken by the foremost man of all the
world upon the greatest battlefield of
any age. They have long since been
recognized as forming one of the
greatest classics IN the English Ian.
guage. This address was spoken while
a great war was raging between neo-
pie OF common nation. white mems
passions were at white heat, yet it has
no word Of unklndness or reproach,
but throughout breathes the broadest
spirit of charity and good will toward
all mankind
We are having this tablet placed in
every library and school possible
throughout the land, and desiring to
recognize the courtesy of this Steam
ship Company In giving to this noble
ship the name of President Lincoln"
it seemed proper and fitting that one
of these Memorial Tablets should
grace these walls The German En-
peror upon learning of our intention,
very graciously detailed Captain Heb
biughaus of his imperial Navy, to rep.
resent the German Empire. President
Roosevelt responded by naming Lieu.
tenant -Cofnmander Sims of the United
States Navy TO represent this Govern,
ment
We place this tablet here in the
hope that as this noble ship passes to
and fro across the waters IL may form
a mystic tie which shall unite tha two
great nations in the firmest of friend
ship, and that the people who come
and go as they look upon this tablet
may be imbued with the SPORT which
IL breathes and be induce
ITO pass the signal on TO coming
time.
That the onward march OF good will
TO mankind may not cease
TIL happy fate rings out millennial
chime.
And perfect righteousness brings
wOrld peace" e..
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
KILLED SlS1tR-lN-LAw
Laborer Was Angry Because She Had
| Her Husband Arrested For
Abusing Her.

Portsmouth, Ohio, June 5~-Charles
Webb, a laborer, shot and killed his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Lucy Webb, then
fatally shot himself near New Boston
this afternoon Five shots were fired
into the woman's back and she fell
dead In the yard of her home before
the eyes Of her two children.
The woman yesterday sought the
arrest OF her husband. Adolph Webb,
for abusing her. and this may have
prompted his brother TO kill her
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
SETTING TRAPS TO
CATCH NIGHT RIDERS.

Ripley. o., June State offlcia' 3
are preparing to spring a trap to
catch night riders. Wholesale arrests
are expected. Detective work has
been gcing on for weeks and the an-
thorities claim to have evidence
against 80 men. Many prominent t.
baceo growers are sad TO be imrH.
Gated. Clarence Holden was arrested
charged with destroying tobacco.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
BOILER TUBE ON CRUISER
TENNESSEE BURSTS; FOUR
KILLED AND TEN INJURED
Horrible Accident at Sea--Ship Was Admiral Sc.
bres's Flagship, Commanding Second Squad
ron Pacific F|eet--No Officers Hurt

Los Angeles, June 5.--F, ur IN n
were killed and ten injured on board
the armored cruiser Tennessee al
sea at II o'clock today when bo'l |
tube broke, hurting fragments of iron
about the engine room and filling ii
with scalding steam. The accident
happened an hour after the cruiser
left Santa Barbara on her way, with
six other vessels of the Pacific fleet
TO Los Angeles and other ports. Z
Only most fragmentary news OF tbs
disaster has been received so far, as
the cruiser has nc. yet arrived at
San Pedro.
Running at High Speed.
What meager -aetals have been
learned were CLEANED from the Off
cial wireless dispatches being trans-
mitted from the squadron to the
wireless stations at San francisco.
The cruiser was steaming at high
speed when the explosion occurred.
The force of the explosion was
terrible and many Of the injured are
fatally hurt il Is believed Accord.
ing to wireless dispatches. no offl-
GERS We're injured.
The seamen will not be landede un-
Ill tomorrow morning when they will
be taken ashore at San Pedro and
brought to the Marine hospital at
Los Angeles. where arrangements
have already been made to receive
them
Several other cruisers of the fleet
arrived at Long Beach, Redondo aud
other points ahead of the Tenne sea,
and 1t was evident that the ship had
been considerably disabled by the
accident.
The Tennessee is Admiral se-
bree's fisgship. commanding the aec-
ond division of the Pacific fleet.
The Dead and injured.
The following list OF dead and In.
iured was received by wireless sta
tion:
Dead: George Wood water ten
der; Tar lBoggs, rreman, second
class; George Mark fireman, first
class; Adolph Reinghold, machinist
helper, second class. F+
Probably fatally injured: +, s |
Field f. N. Exantes, ]. ]. Carroll, |
firemen; e. J. Burns, w. F, Burns, |
coal passers; T. T. .'arson, fireman, |
slightly injured.
Fourteen in Fire Room.
There We're fourteen men In the
fire room when the four inch tube
blew out. driving torrents of scalding |
steam, coal dust, cinders and hot
ashes through the ash pit and show |
cred the half naked men. /
A blast of whit steam from the
ventilators told those on deck of the
and Lieutenant Commander
navigator, instantly sound
ed a general alarm. and twenty lines
Of hose were dropped for instnat use
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
BUTTE FLOODED.

Butte. Mont, June Eight inches
of snow on the level, washed into a
slush by driving rain that set in at
daylight. cut Butte off from the out
side world today. Telegraph commu-
nication was not restored until noon.
There is not telephone lines, street
car or power lines working and many
of the mines are closed, having lost
their electrical power.
Trains are reported stalled.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
Y. w. C. A. AT AsHEvlLLE.

Asheville. N. C. June 5.-severa
hundred young women. representing
many states. have arrived here. each
with her full quota of trunks and
travelling bags. to be present at the
opening of the national convention
of the Young Women's Christian as
'soeiatlon of the United States. which
is heh for the next ten days az
kenilWotth Inn. 1t is estimated tha,
at least 500 delegates will attend the
conference The program is repiete
with interesting fatures IN the way
of papers, addresses and discussions.
in addition 10 the usual amount Of
routine business.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
N! MORTAL TO
HONEST ABt" "
TABLET BEARING GETTYSBURG
SPEECH UNVEILED ON STEAM
Err PRESIDENT LINCOLN
HIGHEST TRIBUTE PAID
To Memory of Martyr BY Two Promi
nent Members of G. A. R.--Cer-
many Sends Representative TO
Unveiirg.

New York, June 5.--A Lncoll
Memorial Tablet was unveiled on tht
/ new steamer, President Lincoln. her,
today. The tablet Is inscribed witt
the martyrs Gettysburg speech. on,
lof the classics OF this age The pre-
sentation was made by leading mem
bers of the G.. A. r.. which organiza
ton Is placing these tablets at many
places. Charles Burrows, quartermaa
ter general OF the G. A. r., and War
rem Lee Goss, national patriotic in
structor of the G, A. r., made ad-
dresses at the unveiling. paying high
tribute to Lincoln
Goss Address.
Nj Goss Said in part
Upon tablets of enduring bronze we
have Inscribed Lineoln's Gettysburg
address as the best fitted of all human
utterances, both for the teaching of
sentiments of patriotism and for EN-
balmng the memory of those who
fought or suffered or died for the Re.
public Today, strong not only In a
preserved and perfected Union but in
our alliances with sister nations, we
have met to place, In imperishable
form, Lineoln's great address In the
cabin Of a steamship which win bear
his name to and fro between great and
friendly powers.
Although with him the safety OF
the Republic was the supreme law, y
he held no resentments against those
who fought against him He won
all hearts by his simple goodness, and
thorgh not In theory a Christian. 10
bis spirit Of charity and Performance
be reflected more of Christ than any
ruler of any time. lie was incapable
1f bitterness and IN this death his
greatness NEST appears, that having
enemies he hated them not, having |
lefamers he retorted not
Though dead he speaketh the |
lges will be his audience; his memory |
Will be like a growing wreath above
lis grave, taking root In the soil
hat covers It, bringing forth leaves
md flowers percnnially." May we not
ay of him as was said OF Washington
" the irish orator; "No people can
lain, no country appropriate him.
boon Of providence to the human
ace his fame is eternity, his inher-
tance creation"
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
MAYOR BUSSE WEDDED
Chicago's Executive Quietly Married
to Miss Josephine Lee on April
29-only Five Present.

Chicago, June Information be.
came public today that Mayor Fred A,
Bnsse, was married April % TO Miss
Josephine Lee of this city.
Later the mayor confirmed the r.
port The ceremony was performed
by Judge Theodore Brentauo. there
being but five people in all present at
the time OF the marriage.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06

in case OF fire.
Within the doomed fire room, mum
ber three, amidship on the starboard
side, which is one of the sixteen en-
clcsed fire compartments the survi
ing seamen We're fighting for live.
Reinhold aud Meek were stricken
dead at their posts,
Admira's Narrow Escape.
| Boggs and Wood crawted or were
dragged into the adjoining fire room
| No. IL, and died. almost imme liateIy.
| The surylnying seamen all of whom
received some injuries, acted WITH
, the greatest heroism in, aiding their
unfortunate mates, Rear Admiral Sc
bree escaped death Or serious injury
in the fire pit by mere moment S
time. He had left the room where
the explosion occurred not fifty see-
onds before the fatal blast. The
admiral stood in the engine room a r.
joining the fire room with Chief En-
gineer Robertson and Captain How
ard. His first intimatIon of the
der and a half naked fireman leaped
past him suffering from severe
scalds.
Undergoing inspection.
The ship was undergoing inspection
by the commander OF the second diyi-
sion and had been under way over
two hours. the engines, boilers and
all working machinery working per
fectly. fully equal to the acceptance
trial H
The Tennessee was the flagship ofI
the second division OF the Pacific
cruiser fleet and left Santa Barbara
at 10 O'Clock this riorning with the
other cruisers In her walks, ON the
semiannual official speed trial pre-
vided for BY the naval regulations.
235 Pounds OF Steam
Sebree had ordered the Users to
full speed, and the Tennessee had
just concluded series Of evolutions
and started straightaway at a spea |
of between is and 10 knots The ad |
miral In the engine room had Just |
taken note that the dial recorded d |
steam pressure OF 235 pounds when
the explosion occurred, Less than |
fifteen minutes earlier the tubes had |
endured a pressure of 265 pounds.
There was no wreckage, hut the
explosion was described by the sur,
vivors as frightful.
So great was the blast of SCOT and
steam that every man in the engine
room was blackened from head to
foot while those closest to the break
we're literally cooked alive.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
OUT OF GENERAL FUND
Came Whatever Money Was Sent to
Nebraska For Campaign of 1904,
Says Sheehsn.

New York, June 5-whatever money
was sent to Nebraska for use in the
campaign of 1904 was taken from the
general fund of the Democratic nation
al committee, which was made up of
voluntary contributions from many
persons, according to letter written
by VIM. F. Sheehan of this city to
MN. j. Bryan at Lincoln. Neb.. June 1.
and made public today.
The letter bears upon the allegation
that Thomas F. Ryan contributed SIS
600 to the state campaign In Nebraska
In 1904 through Sheehan. chairman of
the Democratic national committee.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
AMERICAN GIRL MAKES
DEBUT AS SINGER

Paris, June 5.-Flora w lson.
daughter of James Wilson, United
States, secretary 0. agriculture. a
pupil of Jean De GezZeke, had a
successful debut az the concert in
Geayeau hall tonight. Society and
prominent members of the American
colony were present Miss Wilson
possesses a voice of pleasing quality
and she was repeatedly encored.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
LOST $500 PER MILE.

Lincoln. Neb.. June Sin a state
ment flled with the state board of
equalization today the Missouri Paci-
fic railway officially asserts the loss
last year amounted to 400 per mile
The Missouri Pacific has 297 miles
of track In Nebraska.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
LATER.

Los Angeles, June 5,--The Ten
nessee arrived and anchored inside
the breakwater two miles from the
water front shortly after O'Clock.
The injured viii not be brought
ashore until tomorrow. -s.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
EDWARD TO VISIT GAR.

London June. king Edward
Queen Alexandra and Princess Vic
toria started for Reval Russia. tonight
for visit TO the Emperor of Russia.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
APPOINTED POSTMASTER.

Washington. June 5. - President
Roosevelt today appointed ]. r.. Cald-
er ostmaster of Edgemont, South
Dakota.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06

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