The new era., 1909-07-08

Samuel GomperS, president OF the
American Federation of Labor, sailed
for Liverpool on the 10th inst, to re-
main abroad until September.
Mehmed ". the new Sultan of Tur-
key, will start on eour Of the Euro
pean countries in the autumn, accord
ing to the London Standard. He will
arrive in England in December.
The government expedition under
Capt. Elmer Mikkelson, the Arctic ex-
plorer, sailed from Copenhagen, June
goth, aboard the Danish steamer AL.
bama for Greenland to search for the
bodies Of the Erickson party.
Rev. ]. ]. McCann. pastor of St.
Mary's Roman Catholic Church at FL
gin, ILL.,. announced from the pulpit
Sunday that he was not opposed to
Sunday baseball. Rev. w. l. A. Beal
of the Episcopal Church has also stat
ed that Sunday baseball is not objec-
tionable.
Thirty survivors of the crew of 16S
men which manned the warship Kear
sarge during the famous sea fight with
the Confederate ship Alabama off the
coast of France June 10, 1864, gath
cred at Waltham, Mass, On the 18th
inst. to celebrate the forty-fifth ami.
versary OF that encounter.
Harvard, Princeton and Yale are
undermining faith and teaching i'm
morality" declared Bishop James A.
McFaul of Trenton, N. j., In address
ing group of young men who had
just received their Bachelor of Arts
degrees at the commencement of St.
Francis Xaviers College, New York.
Princeton University's one hundred
and sixty-second annual commence
ment was celebrated on the 18th inst
before hundreds of alumni and rela-
tives Of members Of the graduating
class. which numbered 242. Earring
ton Reed Carpenter of Colorado was
the winner of the New York Herald
prize.
That it was illusional insanity tina:
caused John ]. Murphy, pig killer for
the North Packing company at Somer-
vile. to become violent and attack and
kill five and wound three Of his fellow
workmen on June 5, was the report of
two alienists in the superior court at
Cambridge, Mass. Judge Lawton
thereupon ordered Murphy sent to an
insane asylum.
Two baby antelope sent by express
by Colonel Roosevelt to his daughter,
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. were
brought to New York a few days
since on the steamer Vaderland. Cap
tain Burman kept the little animals on
the bridge deck and had them fed
with milk from bottle on the way
over. The antelope were taken by
the Vaderland at Antwerp from the
East African steamer Admiral.
The Senate settled the zinc ore
schedule by adopting an amendment
to the House bill providing for an in
creasing duty up to point where the
ore bears 25 per cent Of zinc. Zinc
ore containing less than 10 per cent
of zinc to be admitted free, between
10 and 20 per cent at Y cent per
pound. between 20 and 25 per cent II
a cent per pound, and above 25 per
cent l cent per pound.
NuTlSlldu oSAcuCSp tAC I<hohuSA
movement. soul cure. osteopathy. men-
tai healing and attempts to cure by
the laying on Of hands are loud. en-
phatic protests against the abuse Of
drugs" Thus declared William D.
Foster of the American institute of
Homeopathy in his annual address
before fifteen hundred homeopathic
physicians. at the sixty-fifth annual
meeting Of the American Institute Of
Homeopathy, In Detroit.
-Four persons were killed outright
and half dozen bruised and MANNED
three fatally-when one Of the huge
75O-horse power boilers exploded and
broke from its foundation at the Den
yer Gas and Electric Company power
plant, Sixth and Lawrence streets, in
Denver. Just after o'clock Tuesday
evening. the 18th inst. BY energetic
work OF the company electric Light
and power service was fully restored
within thirty-six hours. Meantime
many printing and manufacturing
plopta cuffored temD0rary incOnyeni-