Semi-weekly herald., 1909-04-26

OF liquor at retail, and that no person
shall be allowed license who is In
any way backed by any person hav-
ling any such connections. This ordi-
nance, II passed, would mean that 2S'
saloons at present holding licenses
would lose their licenses Immediately
Or at the expiration of thirty days,
for which their licenses are renewed
from month to month, declares Alder
man Kendall. This is more than haii
the saloons at present doing business
within the city limits.
Pueblos new mayor, A. l. Eugard'
has caused condemnation among the
law breaking saloons and gambling ira
ternrity by issuing two orders TO the
chief Of police, one that saloons must
close at midnight and remain closed
Sundays, and the other that all iorms
of gambling. including poker games
must discontinue. The order goes into
, effect Saturday and the chiet Oh po'
lice is instructed to arrest every one
violating the order-to keep detec-
tive watch.
The American Steel and Wire com
pany. subsidiary OF the unitea
States Steel corporation, has announc-
ed a reduction of 10 cents per hun
dred pounds, or So per ton, on all
classes of steel wire. The announce
ment has been expected for some time.
, Independent interests have been cut
ting under the established price and
the steel and wire company has been
meeting these price concessions. The
prices of wire and nails were not re-
duced at the time of the general steel
reductions early In March.
, Walter Wellman says that in the i'm
pending tariff debates in the senate
Elihu Root may expose the evils of
the legislative system which allows
, one man, Senator Aldrich, to fix the
, schedules for 90,OOO,OOO people.
More than fifty bakers throughout
, Chicago have been forced TO quit bust
ness on account of the high price oil
flour and rigid municipal regulations
and many more are confronted with
; failure, according TO President Ma
thias Schmidinger OF the Master Bak'
ers' association.
Il Rev David r. Francis, who accord
ing to press dispatches has become in
p volved In a sensational church scandal
, at Ironton. Ohio, was formerly pastor
of the Congregational church of Trim
= idad about six years ago and left there
quite hastily under the cloud of a
similar scandal in which he was al
a legged to have been unduly intimate
f, with various women members of his
, congregation.
q There were 1874 people killed and
1924 injured in train accidents during
= the three months ending Dec. 81 last
:, according to the interstate commerce.
:. commission report Tuesday. OtheI
n kinds of accidents bring the total mum
ber of casualties up TO 1854, includ
!, ing 79S killed and 1886 injured. Thi
: shows a decrease of 2,S14 as compared
= with a year ago. There were 1,S7'
collisions and 1871 derailments. caus
. ing s1,940.133 damage.
Death exacted the heaviest toll il
Chicago during the week which close'
Saturday night that has been imposed
in any seven-day period of the las
fourteen months. Seven hundred am
!, thirty-five was the total piled up b
=. the various forms of disease, whicl
is 6S more than the record for tn
preceding week and los more tha
was recorded in the correspondent
;, week of last year. Pneumonia wa
first in carrying off the living.
What physicians pronounce one O
!, the most remarkable cures throug
the agency of radium in the histor
of medical science, has just been cor
firmed by the examination of pf
!. tient who was expected to die 81
months ago when he went to Flowe
hospital. New York, with malignan
tumor. the size of child's hand, /
:, his abdomen The large mass whic
threatened his life has disappeare
and the small remaining knot in 1t
place has lost its character as tumo
g and is simply scar tissue. which ha
not been removed by the process c
absorption.
Arrangements for the approachin
funeral services of the late empero
+" Of China reveal the fact that extrs
y ordinary precautions are being take
to safeguard the imperial princes an
c high officials against the possibilit
OF bomb being thrown or other ou
RACES. The infant emperor will no
u participate in the ceremony, and tn
! prince regent will participate onl
Z within the confines of the closel
guarded imperial city. The prince re
gent urges than an appropriation b
made of 100000 taels for the imme
u date organization of the new Manch
Imperial guards. and the officials o
all ports have been instructed to watcl
closely to intercept steamship tha
/ Is reported TO have departed iron
Japan and to be carrying munitions o