Semi-weekly herald., 1909-05-20

Chicago bakers have raised the price
of pies and most other edibles.
! President Taft has written gov erno.
/ Stubbs of Kansas that he will not per
nit himself to be used in any political
factionai contest and he withdraws a
nomination made at the governur 5
suggestion
At Pittsburg last night Hugh Nc
Gam was easily worsted by Stanley
Ketchel in a sixround bout, the limit
in Pennsylvania. McGann was at the
mercy of Kitchell all the time and was
knocked down Ave times.
Women outnumber the men by i5.
425 in the national capital and It's sui
uibs, according TO the police census
recently gathered and officially an.
nounced Saturday. The census shows
total population of 343.003 in the en-.
tire District of Columbia, an increase
OF $500 over a year ago. The negroes
in the district number 97,l42.
Eighty women from Abdul Hamid's
harem, richly dressed and yelled, were
driven in carriages Sunday under the
escort of four eunuchs and a troop of
cavalry from the Yildiz to the ancient
Seraglio palace, which has been un.
occupied since 1924. This is taken to
mean that the authorities are driving
out all vestige of rule on the part OF
the late sultan.
New York City's taxable property is
now estimated TO be worth about Sc,
Sc0,000.000. according to Lawson Pur.
dy, president of the board OF tax and
assessments. In a speech at the City
Planning and Municipal Art exposition
MIR. Purdy said that two-thirds of. this
property is represented by land and
that less than one hundred thousand
al average holding of about s6S,0O0
TO each taxpayer.
During the last few DAYS definite
lntimation has been received at court
TO the effect that the emperor OF Ger
many proposes to pay another visit to
England this coming autumn and that
he will remain several weeks. The
emperor is to stay with the king and
queen at Windsor, where round OF
entertainments will be organized In
his honor, and will subsequently ac
company their majesties to sandring.
ham for the shooting.
According to statements made the
! orders of the General Electric com
paDy since the first OF February have
been at the rate of between $51 900.
900 and s53.000,O00 a year The or
ders received in the last fiscal year
aggregated s44,000.0O0, and in the fis,
cal year ended Jan. 81, 1909, about
S6O,000,000. The management is OF
the opinion that orders for the cur.
rent fiscal year will equal those re
ported in any year since the company
was organized.
Germany is TO be fortified with d
chain of airship stations, stretcnine
from Lake Constance by way OF AL
SAGE and Lorraine to the Rhine prov
iuces as far north as Hamburg. A,
each of these stations win be within
short distance OF the French border
the plan has its significance. Their,
is vague talk of establishing anothe
airship line sklrting the Baltic ant
North seas. This would mean lookini
In the direction of England. but tn
initial activity in the southwest ma
be interpreted as meaning compara
lively speaking. that Engiands mil
tary aerial forces are not yet formids
BILE.
0 There are two bills pending in tn
y legislature OF Illinois for the constru
! tion OF deep water way connectin
d the drainage canal from Chicago. q
g. or near Lockport, with the Illino
l. river at or near Utica. at . cost {
- $4,000. 900 to s2s.ooo.ooo. These bill