The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-07-16

me lllln CRUISER Squdurol VI tile DIV
ish navy will attend the Hudson-Fulton
celebration in New York in September.
Judge Waddill at Norfolk, Va, sen
fenced Samuel w. Smith, s. years, &c
prison for having in his possession mods
and dies for making spurious money
This was Smiths third sentence by
Judge Waddill for counterfeiting.
At conference at the White House
Monday. 1t was definitely decided that
the rate to be levied under the new cor
poration tax shall be reduced from pen
cent. to per cent. and that in redraftng
the measure, now in conference along
wth'the tariff bill, due consideration will
be given to the demand of the mutual
life insurance companies, whose income
would have been seriously affected.
Warfare, vigorous and unrelenting,
by Catholic temperance advocates
against the liquor traffic, with one Of
features in the campaign monster
parade of 10000 total abstinence sup
porters as a "sient answer" to the
statement Of Mayor Rose Of Milwaukee
in a recent debate on Prohibition y
that the Catholic church did not favor
prohibition, was planned at a meeting
Of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
Of Illinois, Sunday.
The National Woman Suffrage Assn,
with headquarters in Washington, is
preparing monster petition for con-
gress, asking that a constitutional
amendment be submitted to legislatures
of the various States, providing votes
for women. The general petition will
be preceded by a select petition
bearing the names of Mark Twain,
Booth Harrington, William Dean How
ellis, Jas. Lane Allen, Julia Ward Howe
and host of others equally as promi-
nent.
The White Star Line is now building
two steamships for its Southampton
Cherbourg Queenstown-New York mail
service which in point of size will eclipse
everything ahoat, while the numerous
innovations devised for the comfort of
the passengers will come as a revelation
even in the age that has already pro-
duced such veritable wonders of the
sea. The names of the vessels will the
Olympic and the Titanic, the gross
register of each As, 600 tons, and they
will steam at not less than twenty-One
knots.
No one has ever ATTEMPTED to place a
value on the contents of the Ottoman
treasury, which, it is stated, the Young
Turks propose to turn into cash for
national needs. Its worth in money is
for the solid gold throne is
studded with ten thousand pearls as big
as tilberts while there are rows of bowls
with uncut gems, and amazing ancient
armor, sets with rubies, emeralds and
diamonds. Among all this wealth there
are also such trihes as some of the
most exquisite Sevres china in the
world, presented by Louis XIV to Sui
ian Mustapha.
Theodore Roosevelt's life was saved
again by his Workmanship, according to
advices received Thursday. While
hunting along the banks of Lake Naiva.
'ha, British East Africa, he suddenly
encountered a monster lions tracks
which were the largest ever seen in that
Dart of Africa. The beast suddenly
appeared charging Roosevelt, who haze
rarely time to use his rifle. He fired
ne shot which felled the furious lion
he beast is the finest specimen of the
unt. The Colone's luck during the last
ew days has been wonderful, bagging a
me lioness, four rhinoceroses many
ntelopes and other wild beast.
Delegates of a number of New York
usiness associations will 60 TO Wash ,
lgton to urge that tariff commission
e Incorporated as part of the tariff
i'll finally agreed upon by the senate {
nd house conferees having that meas.
re in charge. The call has been issued
y H. E. Miles, chairman of the COM ,
ittee appointed at the indianapolis
riff convention, which approved the j
an for a tariff commission. Delegates {
ON commercial bodies from other q
arts of the country will meet the New
ork delegates at Washington, and the I
gathering will urge the need