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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-03-18
PROVISIONS OF
new TARIFF BILL
Changes Made by Measure
Just introduced.
CUT In STEEL and LUMBER

Present Duty on Both Products Re-
duced Fifty Per Cent, While Boots
and Shoes Pay Forty Per Cent Less.
Iron Ore, Hides, TaIIow and Cotton
seed OF, on Free List--Inheritance
Tax Provision Included in Bill.
Washington, March 18.-Downward
revision, maximum and minimum pro-
visions which impose an average max
imum duty 20 per cent in excess of
the present tariff and numerous pro-
visions by which it is estimated that
the revenue 70 the government will
be increased from $40,000,000 to $780,
100000 are the salient features of the
new tariff bill which was introduced
in the house by Representative Serene
+. Payne, chairman of the ways and
means committee. The recommends
tions made by President Taft that an
inheritance tax be provided and that
Q KNITTED amount of tobacco and sugar
be admitted free from the Philippines
are included In the bill. The measure
also provides for the issuance Of Pan
anna canal bonds to the amount OF
for the original purchase of the canal
and re-enacts the provision for the
Issue Of treasury certificates, the
amount being increased from 500, ,000,.
900 to $3.50, ,00O.000
While there is no duty imposed
upon coffee tea is taxed cents when
imported from the country where it is
produced and 8 cents when from other
than the producing country. The In
tcrnal revenue tax on cigarettes is
materially increased. while the tax on
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-03-18
JUDGE HART CHARGES JURY
Summing Up of Court in Cooper Trial
Most Comprehensive.

Nashville, Tenn, March 1S.-Judge
Hart's charge to the jury in the Coo
per-Sharpe trial for the murder OF
former United States Senator e. w.
Carmack, consisted of sixty-two type.
written pages of about 400 words each,
Lawyers say it was the most compre.
hensive and clear charge ever deliv.
cred in Tennessee court and includ.
ed In the theories of state and defense
a digest of the testimony of every
witness who testified on either side.
The courts definition Of an overt
act was general In character and he
instructed the jurors that they must
decide whether or not the Coopers
committed an overt act when they
crossed the street to meet Carmack.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-03-18

beer and whisky is undisturbed. A
cut of 80 per cent is made in the steel
and lumber schedules and iron ore,
hides, tallow, cottonseed oil and works
of art more than twenty years old are
placed on the free list
Duty on Boots and Shoes Cut.
The tariff on boots and shoes Is re-
duced 40 per cent and on other leather
manufactures in proportion. The pot
terry schedule remains about the same,
but the duties on window and plate
glass of the smaller sizes are in
creased, while the duties on the larger
sizes are reduced. The tariff on wool
of the first and second class, used
principally in clothing, is not dis
turbed, but on wool of the third class,
known as carpet wool, it is reduced
on the cheaper grades. A scent re-
duction Is made in the duties on
shoddy and waste, while wool tops
are assessed 6 cents pound more
than the duty on secured wool, which
Is unchapoed ,The recommendations
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-03-18
Decrease in Steel Earnings.

New York. March 1S.-The annual
report OF the United States Steel cor
poration shows that for the year end
ing Dec. 81, 1908, gross receipts of
s4S2, ,307 $40 were earned, decrease
of S274,fC6,927 from the preceding
year. The net earnings of the cor
poration were $a1.s47,T1l, decrease
of S69, 9,115,962 from the year of 1907.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-03-18
COCKTAILS ANSWERS CRITICS
Chief Engineer Defends Lock Canal
at Panama.

Washington, March ia strong
defense of the present plan of build.
ing lock canal at Panama, not only
because it is deemed more desirable
than canal built on sea level, but
because of the saving in time and
money, is contained in a special re-
port Of Lieutenant Colonel George w.
GCethals, chairman and chief engineer
of the isthmian canal commission, just
made public. The report, which is an
exhaustive one, deals with every
phase OF the canals construction and
in it Colonel Goethals handles without
gloves those critics who he says are
predicting nothing but disaster and
failure to the enterprise
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-03-18
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16
SOLDIERS BUILD CITY
Provide Shelter for Army of One Thou
sand in Two to Three Minutes.


The shelter tent drills at the ma
tional tournament of the United
States army at Des Moines, Sept. 20
to rs, will arouse the wonderment of
those who witness them, because of
the rapidity with which a marching
column is converted into a sleeping
camp. A column of troops marches
into the arena in close formation. At
a bugle signal they halt, fall out, take
up positions at intervals of about ten
feet from each other, stack arms and
detach from about their shoulders lit
tie compact rolls of canvass Two
men work together and so quickly that
the eye can scarcely follow the move
ments, the men erect a small shelter
tent standing about four feet from
the ground and supported by jointed
ridge pole and secured with stakes.
This tent is seven feet long and five
feet wide. Once completed, two SOL
diers disappear into each tent and in
the short space of three to four min.
utes an army of 1000 men in march
ing formation is converted into a camp
of 500 tents, with two soldiers occupy
ing each tent
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16
A GREAT CITY OF TENTS
Army Camp at Des Moines War Tour
nament Will Cover One Hundred
and Thirty-five Acres.

A camp of 1875 acres and shelter
ing 5000 soldiers, over 5000 horses
and in which will be parked dozens of
pieces of artillery, many hundreds Of
wagons, commissary stores, etc., will
be one of the great features of the ma
tional tournament of the United
States army at Des Moines, Sept. 20
to rs. The tents are laid off with the
regularity Of we'll planted cornfield.
This great camp will be open to visit.
ors at all times, without fee or charge,
and details of the troops will be as
signed each day to explain its every
feature to visitors. They will have
the privileges Of the entire camp from
the great portable field bakeries and
Kitchens, in which bread and rations
for 5000 men are prepared each day,
to the tents along the company
streets.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16
A GREAT INFANTRY DRILL
Thousands of Soldiers Will Give the
Famous Butts Manual at
DeS Moines.

Butts manual, an infantry drill pos
sible only where large numbers of
troops are gathered together, will be
given daily at the Des Moines mill
tary tournament.
A regiment of infantry engages in
this drill. The men are drawn up in
a formation facing the grand stand
with space of ten feet between men
and ten feet between lines. They ap
pear in dress uniform, even to the
spotless white gloves. To the music
VI an army band they grasp their
and for ten minutes execute bar
and for ten minutes execute a bar
bell drill, every man acting in accord
with every other one and executing
the entire drill, to the fixing of bay
onets and the demonstration of their
use, without a single word of COM
mand being uttered. The regiment
fills the entire arena and as the drill
progresses the movements of the men
give the impression of surging sea
of blue with the CLINT and flash from
gun barrels and bayonets, resembling
the flashing of the sun on the water.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16
MOUNTAIN ARTILLERY FIGHTS
U. s. Detachments Will Engage in
Battles at Des Moines, Sept. POPS.

One of the exciting contests at the
great military tournament on the
state fair grounds at Des Moines the
week of Sept. 20 will be between the
mountain batteries. An approaching
column is surprised by an ambusheo
foe and undertakes to respond, but
finds that the enemy is so securely en-.
trenched that rifle fire is not effective.
At signal train of horses, carrying
what appear to be packs, dash up. Sol
diers rush to these and in the short
space of from two to three minutes
have unpacked from the backs of the
horses and mounted upon wheels,
mountain howitzers, rapid fire guns,
ETC., and opened scathing artillery
fire upon the enemy. The demonstra-
ton is Of the manner in which artil.
lery is packed over mountains and
used in warfare in country where
there are no roads for the transporta-
ton of horse and field artillery.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16
Mothers Wages.

All of us can recognize the truth
fulness of the following from an un-
known author:
How infrequently mothers devotion
lie unrecognized. Her incessant work
is taken too often as matter of course;
it may be excusable in young people,
but husbands sometimes act in the
same way. Mother notices this indif-
ference, unintentional as it may be, and
it makes Der wonder why she should
be SO lightly valued.
How is she paid in actual money ?
She receives certain sum weekly or
monthly, and that is expected to cover
all the supplies for the home, all repairs
and renewals and frequently enough
for her own clothes and those of the
smaller children.
She has no set sum for her own;
father and the earning children expect
to retain proportion of their earnings
for pocket money, but mother has to
satisfy all demands and take what is
left.
That this Is true picture will lie
admitted by those who ponder the
home conditions of many families; and
among those who doubt it there will
be many who, in after years, will look
back and say that perhaps they, even
then, did not appreciate mother at her
true worth.
Unselfish mothers are apt to make
their children selfish by being too at
tentive to them. In their own in
terests the children should be made to
pay mothers wages, pay them to her in
money and affectionate service. The
laborer is worthy of her hire, even
mother! Father and the boys and girls
should see to it that her position is not
too hard, and that she has a tidy fund
of money that belongs to her. She
usually does more work than any
member of the family.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16

stration of the way in which troops in
extended order approach fortified.
ton. At the bugle signal to charge
the column rises from the ground with
a yell and rushes the wall While the
TANKS cover the top of the wall with
terrific rifle fire, men told off build
human pyramid against the side of the
wall much in the shape of a double
staircase, and over this the column
rushes to the top of the wall and the
men drop over, going up over the
pyramid much as one would go up
stairs. A column of 800 men can be
and will be passed over the obstruc-
ton at the rate of 100 men to the
minute.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16
ARMY GOES OVER BIG FORTS
Will Send 1000 Men Over Wall Of
Mimic Fort at Des Molnes in
Three Minutes,

At the Des Moines tournament of
the United States army the wall seal
ing contests will be watched with
great interest and wonderment An
imaginary fertilization is erected, the
material used being lumber The wall
is carried up perpendicularly to
height Of sixteen feet. A column Of
six to eight hundred infantrymen is
told of to capture the fertilization.
For several minutes there is demon
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16

Don't sit on the shady side of the
street and delare that the world is 60
ing to the demnition bow vows. Don't
whine and say something or somebody
is preventing things from coming your
way. Go to work, dod blast your lazy
souls! Stir up living. Stop your in
fernal knocking on this or that man,
and on the business in which they may
be engaged. Get business of your
own and work at it. The sorriest speci-
men of humanity is he who puts up
hard luck stories-what he might have
been had not some son. of-a-gun stood
in his way. The wilmer and Pathfinder
are out Of the race these days. No one
wants their service, simply because
they can't make good.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16
FOREIGN ARMIES WILL WATCH
canucks, English, French, Germans
Austrians, Russians, Italians and
Norwegians to Watch Iowa
War Game.

War maneuvers of such magnitude
as to attract the attention of the
world powers will be given on Iowa
soil during the present month. Eight
foreign armies will be repres ented at
the national tournament of the Unit.
ed States army at the state fair
grounds, Des Moines, Sept. 20 to Is
inclusive. These are coming to watch
the battle maneuvers and to report
on the condition of the troops after
the long marches to Des Moines, the
character of their equipment, ETC., in
the hopes that pointers for the better
ing of the conditions Of their own
forces will be obtained. A box in the
grand stand has been reserved at
their request for all six days and this
will be equipped with desks for their
secretaries so that complete notes can
be taken describing all of the maneu-
vers, etc.
The powers to be represented and
the representation is as follows:
Canadian royal army, Major Louis
Lafere, Captain Ferguson Macdonald,
Captain Sanford Lowe Hill.
French army, Major Brougher.
English army, Lieutenant Champion
Hall Beard.
German army, Captain Conrad
Klueg.
italian army, Major Bartha Aculln
Vincent.
Austrian army, Lieutenant Max
Schenachek
Russian army. Captain Alexis stro-
boski
Norwegian army. Major Victor
Mesa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16

See Roe Caster right now if you want
cement building blocks.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,

LUCAS COUNTY. Do
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior
partner Of F. J. Cheney Co., doing business in the
city of Toledo county and state aforesaid and that
said firm will pay the Of ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS for each and every case Of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use Of Halls Catarrh Cure
FRANK j. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence
this 9Th day of December A. d. 1885.
A. w. GLEASON,
(SEAL)
NOTARY PUBLIC
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system. Send for testimonials free.
e. J. CHENEY CO., TOLEDO o.
Sold by all druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16
A Constip ation
Remedy Free

There is no action of your daily
life of greater Importance than to see
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If they do not move at least once a
day you can consider yourself con-
stipated and it is time you did some
thing about it.
You will be glad to know there
is a way out of the difficulty. Lem
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16

If there is anything about
your ailment that you don't
understand, or If you want
any medical advice, write
to the doctor, and he will
answer you fully. There is
no charge for this service.
The address is DR.. w. B.
Caldwell. 500 Caldwell bldg,
Monticello, Ill.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-16
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-02
ENVIRONMENTS STRIKE MAY EXTEND TO
 EVERY ROAD IN THE UNITED STATES
Special from United Press.)

St. Paul, Dec "A nationwide strike affecting practically every rail- road in the United States will be de- clared by the Switchmen's Union of North America, if the American Rail- road Association endeavors to break the strike of the switchmen on the railroads entering the Twin Cities.
 This is the club held over the east ley of the Switchmen's Union. to p-e- vent them frem shipping strike-breGk- CTS Into the Twin Cities.
 This threas was called forth by a. re- port that the association was prepar- ing to lend its financial support to the Twin Cities. railroads.
 This is strictly Northwestern Dts- trtct fight" said Hawley. and they had better keep off. A general strike of most of the railroad organizations of the country will be precipitated if the others attempt to interfere. Tele- grams pledging support have been re- ceived by leaders of the organization throughout the country.
 ''The strike of the ten railroad or ganization affiliated with the railros ds branches of the American Federation of Labor Is not a proposition for the present but rather the future. unless the managers grant us some conces- sions-"
 There is no doubt here that the switchmen have made their strike ef- fective. at least temporarily This is proved by the numerous boiler mills and factories in the Twin Cities that have closed down. throwing their em- ployes out of work because shipments have been shut off. The same condi- tions prevail at Duluth and all the cit les in the northwest depending on the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads for shipments.
 Industrial paralysis exists in prfc- tically all of these cities. In the Twin Cities and Duluth and Superior. 1t Is estimated that more than twelve thou sand men besides the switchmen are Idle as the result of the strike and 1t Is expected that this number will be more than doubled by tomorrow
 The railroad yards here are packed with freight trains which cannot be moved and the men report that hardly any freight can be moved in this city.
 The commission men are being hard hit to get supplies enough for their customers. Should the strike continue very long it Is feared northwestern cities will face a food famine.
 A report that 250 strike-breakers sent to break the switchmen's strike here had arrived in Minneapolis was re- ceived at strike headquarters here this afternoon The strike breakers were reported to have come in over the Burlington road A committee of strikers has been sent to investigate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-02
ANGRY BARBER HAD LOADED PISTOL TO
 SUPPORT THREAT
Arrested After Alleged Threats Against Former Employe Who Refused Him Money.

That James Martin. a barber of 36 Lexington avenue. meant to carry out bis alleged threats against Antonio Petit, a former employer at I647 Main street, is the belief of Patrolman Cor rigan, who arrested Martin this noon after taking from him a pistol foaded ir every one of its five chambers, just after he had left Petti's shop.
 Several weeks ago he quit Petti's employ, and demanded six hours pay. Petit said he didn't owe the money, and his refusal sent Martin into a fury He Is said to have made a num- Der of threats against Petit. who notf- fled Patrolman. Corrigan.
 To-day Corrigan was in the vicinity when Martin entered Petti's shop. and as he came out the offfcer seized hin, and searched him. finding the pistol. He arrested him on the charge of car rying concealed espons- At police headquarters his description was sent to New Jersey. where it Is believed he Is wanted for complicity in a shooting affray. t
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-02
COMMONS VOTE LORDS
 USURPERS

London. Dec. 2-Premier Asquith's resolution. declaring that the Lords rejection of the budget constituted breach of the constitution and usurpation of the rights of the House of Commons, was carried this after noon by a vote of 34e to 1S4 Ire mendous cheering greeted the result After the vote was announced. the House adjourned
 With the bold declaration that if the rejection by the House of Lords of the budget is allowed to be finally eff fective. The unwritten constitution of England win not long continue" Pre- mier Asquith to-day led the debate be- fore crowded House of Commons on bis resolution that the Lords action was q breach of the constitution and House of Commons
 Asouith spoke in a clear voice and with deliberation but for all that he was laboring under great emotion
 The speech was listened to in breath 1ens silence and the -presenoe in the galleries of many of the leading diplo- mats of the nation and scores of rrominent men and women testified to great constitutional struggle that is EoW involving England There were many Peers fin the House
 The Premier declared that the pres snt situation was unparallelsd In par. 1T. Commons would be unworthy of the traditions around It." he declared. If st failed to make 1t clear that 1t does not intend to brook this grave indig- nitT. this most arrogant usurpation of dtr rights ever seen in more than two centuries-"
 And if the new parliament is Lib erzi." the Premier said. tits first act win be to re-imDose the recent bud gets taxes and duties and to validate the collection of taxes now being mad= without full authority"
 The dissolution of the parliament to which AsQuith referred really means the prorogfng of the body. which w,fl take place tomorrow. The actual c;s- solution will not take place until January 8. when arrangefnents will be completed for the general election