The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1909-01-21


a letter in which he strongly condemns
the proposed amendment to the 'con-
stitution of Maryland, that has for its
object the disfranchisement of negroes.
Arson r. Flower. noted banker
and philanthropist. brother of the late
Gov. Roswell p Flower of New York,
died on the 3rd inst. at Watertown.
New York, at the age of sixty-six
years.
Robert Fowler, formerly of the Cam
bridge Athletic club of Boston, but now
unattached, won the Yonkers Mara
thon race on New Years day In two
hours, fifty-two minutes and forty-five
and two-fifth seconds.
Warden Mudd of the Kentucky
State Penitentiary plans to organize
a baseball team of long-sentence con-
victs, and games will be played with
other teams of the institutions. Mudd
believes baseball will make better pris-
onerS.
Railroad construction in the United
States in 1908 aggregated only 3.214
Lliles of new main track, the lowest to-
tai for any year since 1897, when only
2,1O9 miles of track We're laid. and
decrease of 1898 miles, or 1873 per
cent. from the figures of 1907,
Or advice of his counsel. Samuel
Gompers has discontinued his I'VE
Don't Patronize" list in the Fedora
tionalst, the labor organ. This was
followed by the suspension of its un-
far list by the Central Federated
Union.
AS holiday diversion December Goth
the President-elect made an excursion
to Aiken. S. c., and played golf on the
famous Palmetto links. Mr.. Taft was
accompanied by Mrs. Taft and the
three children and John Hays Ham
mond, his wife and children.
Germany is not able to supply its
home demand for eggs. according to
Consul General Richard Guenther of
Frankfort, who reports that last year
34,643,O00 worth of eggs We're iD,-
ported, this representing about 3,000.-
000, 900, or an average of 46 per capita.
The long war with the Yaquis In
dams in Mexico In which scores were
killed at different times, including
many Americans, has been terminated
ma treaty of peace, agreed upon by
three Indian chiefs and 166 of their
followers and the governor of the State
of Sonora, Mexico
The Steel corporation has issued
Christmas bonus to all employees hold
ing stock in the company. 1t is esti-
mated that sixty-five per cent. in num-
Der of the holdings are in the hands
of tn. workmen The net earnings are
expected to run between $25,000,0OO
and Sc6,0O0,O00 for the quarter
The largest turkey ranch in the
United States is located in North Caro-
lima Four thousand fat birds were
shipped frcm the farm for Thanksgiv-
ing week. The owner claims that
flock of twenty-five or thirty turkeys
will keep the tobacco fields free from
worms which would otherwise destroy
the plants.
According to an announcement just
made, none but unmarried men will be
accepted by the government in future
to serve as officers in the constabulary
force on the Philippine Islands, and
officers already in the service will not
be allow ed to marry without the con-
sent of the government until they have
attained to their captaincies.
Senator Benjamin B. Tillman, in an
address before the State Teachers AS
ISOLATION at Columbus. S. c., took occa-
sion to warn the people against the agi-
tation for compulsory education. assert
ing that should such law be passed
it would mean the education of the ne
gro, which would in the end mean a
blow to white supremacy.
Wilbur Wright made another long
flight at lie Mans, France, December
Both, remaining in the air for one hour,
fifty-two minutes and forty seconds
and covering a distance of sixty miles.
He was obliged to stop on account of
the intense cold. Both himself and his
machine were covered with ice and the
oil in the motor was frozen.
Yekaterinoslav, Russia, hasn't any
harder name than it deserves. At that
town on New Years day the military
court pronounced forty-one death SEN
fences, nine for recent crimes. Thir-
ty-two of the condemned men were
strikers in the railroad troubles of Oc-
tober, 1905. In addition to the death
sentences, twelve strikers were con-
demned to penal servitude for life and
forty -eight to lesser terms OF exile.