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RIVER BILL VETO?
RUMOR ARISES, FOLLOWING SEN.
SATiONAl ATTACK ~
BURTON.
RIvER7RAYEL AN1IQUATfD
Ohio Senator Attacks improvement
system.-says Country Has Gone
Wild Over Construction OF Locks
and Dams.

Washington, D. C. The sugges.
ton OF a possibility that President
Taft may veto the river and harbor
bill caused some uneasiness among
members of both houses of congress.
This m was circulated immediate
ly after a serious attack made upon
the river n harbor bill by Senator
Burton of Ohio. 1t is assumed hat if
President Taft has any idea that the
river and harbor bill should not be-
come a law. it is due to the charges
made by Senator Burton that the gen.
eral total of the measure is extrava-
giant. and that in some respects the ap-
preparations for a number of the har-
bors and rivers would be wasteful if
applied according to the terms Of the
measure. More than this. the idea
regards the bill as carrying too much
money, considering the present state
of the public finances.
Mr.. Burton declared that the coun-
try had gone wild over the construc-
ton of locks and dams. He %instanced
improvements Of this character. con.
tending that Notwithstanding millions
had been expended there had been a
falling off in tonnage. All this meant,
he said. that that sort Of transporta-
ton is going out of existence.
Much Spent on Ohio.
AS the SenatOr progressed he
aroused more or less opposition and
was engaged in controversy by Sen
ators Page, Lorimer, Gallinger, Bailey.
and others. In reply to Mr.. Gallinger,
the Ohio senatOr admitted that be-
tween $50, 900 and $4,000, 900 had
been expended on the development of
navigation on the Ohio since he (Mr.
3urton) had become chairman of the
house committee on rivers and har.
bors.
Speaking OF the possibilities Of a
deep waterway from Chicago to the
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Washington.

Vice President Sherman and Sher-
man Curtis advised President Taft
that the administration should ar
range to sell 100000 acres Of coal and
asphalt lands in Oklahoma, belonging
to the Choctaw and Chickasha In
dians, under an agreement made with
the Indians long ago. Senator Owen
OF Oklahoma put the matter before
the president a few days ago.
Bids were opened at the treasury
department for the construction of
the public building at Columbus, Neb.
The bidders were as follows: North
western Construction company, Mil
waukee, $4,000; J. H. Weie, South
Omaha, $71.3SO; General Construction
company of Milwaukee. $6S.735.
The war department is about to
take steps to carry out that part of
the findings recently concluded by the
Brownsville court of inquiry. reagrd-
ing the re-enlistment of the members
Of the Twenty-ffth infantry, who
were found to have been free from
completely in the rioting at Browns
Vile.
The war department came IN for a
degree of condemnation at the hands
of several senators in connection with
a bill which was passed providing for
the sale to Whitman college at Walla
WaflA, Wash. of the lands embraced
In the old Walla Walla military res
ervation. 1t was charged that the
price fixed was much less than the
value Of the land and buildings.
II the foreign commerce Of the
United States Of the last four months
Of the fiscal year are as large in pro-
portion as during the first eight
months it will be a record year., &C.
cording to figures prepared by govern
ment expert. In imports the years
record thus far exceeds that Of any
previous year. although the exports
for the eight months are slightly less
than in the closing months of 1908,
he high record year for exports.
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Personal.

President Taft has a long list from
which to select a successor to the
late Justice Brewer.
IT. a speech on the floor of the
house Speaker Cannon tainted the
republican insurgents.
The senate has passed a bill appro-
priating SCI 900 for the repayment to
private citizens Of the sum advanced
for the ransom Of Miss Ellen NJ.
Stone, the American missionary alb.
Quoted by Bulgarian bandits in 1901.
Mr.. Roosevelt and Clifford Pinchot
had an extended conference.
A nineteen-year-old boy was killed
in a prize fight at Passaic. N. j.
Governor Hughes SEM a message to
the legislature asking an investiga.
of alleged corruption.
Charge is made that rotten meat is
fed to old soldiers at the state home
at Grand Island. Nebraska.
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For Uniform Insurance Laws.

Chicago, April ia committee of
the Association Of Insurance Commits
sioners assembled here for a confer
ence that will have far-reaching effect
on the fraternal insurance societies.
Representatives of nearly all bodies
which are members of the National
Fraternal congress and the Associated
Fraternities are present and an effort
will be made to agree on uniform laws
for the government Of fraternal insur-
ance which will increase the security
of the 100000 worth of such in.
urance.
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THEODORE z. BURTON,
States Senator from Ohio.

gulf Of Mexico, Mr.. Burton ridiculed
the idea that ships could 60 through
canal and river and sea to New Or
leans and to Europe. People who are
carried away by this view, he said, for
get that via the Welland canal Chica-
go now has a 14-foot waterway from
Chicago direct to Europe, bat uses i,
to a small extent.
Proceeding after a long interruption
by Mr.. Newlands, Mr.. Burton entered
upon the advocacy of a system of wa
terway improvement under which local
communities should share the cost of
the work. He said this system is in
operation in Europe. After speaking
for three hours, Mr.. Burton suspended
for the day and the reading of the bill
proceeded. When the paragraph ap-
propriating 800, 900 towards the con.
struction of the harbor of refuge at
Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Mass, was
reached, Mr.. Burton moved to strike it
out. Mr.. Lodge resisted and among
other things said that if the harbor
had been completed the steamer Port
land might have been saved. The
amendment to strike out was voted
down.
Comparatively little progress had
been made on the bill when the sen.
ate adjourned.
Would Pension Nurses.
A pension Of $12 a month for each
female nurse who served in the feder-
al army during the civil war is provid-
ed in a bill reported to the senate by
Senator Scott from the committee on
pensions. There are fewer than 200
of the nurses now Ii, ing, and the ex.
pense of the pension would be lees
than $50. 900 a year.
BY 149 to 50 the house refused to
pass a bill giving to Major General
Daniel f. Sickles the rank and pay of
lieutenant general. United States
army, retired.
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MISSION RIOTS IN CHINA
AMERICANS IN THE HANDS OF
WILD MOB.
Two Foreigners Fail to Escape When
Chinese Rioters Capture
Changsha.

Picking, China. - The riots inaug.
urated by the natives at Changsha
continue. The provincial governor is
reported to have been killed. The
city wall is in the hands Of the mob.
The property of all foreigners at
Changsha has been destroyed, but the
foreign residents escaped, except two
Americans. whose names are un
known. who are reported to be still
inside the city. Chinese troops have
been dispatched to C%hangsha.
Americans Reported Safe.
Washington, d. c. - The rice riots
at Changsha, capital of the Hun
an province of China, continued
through Wednesday and Thursday of
this eek and probably are still I'M
checked. So far, two English and one
Norwegian mission have been burned
The American ambassador at Pc
king. in a dispatch to the state depart
ment giving this information, states
that three British gunboats are pro-
ceeding to Changsha to protect Brit
lsh~ interests here. 1t is reported that
the Chinese governors residence at
Changsha also was burned.
The American ambassador is in
formed by the Chinese foreign Office
that there need be no anxiety regard
ing the safety of Americans.
Rice Corner the Cause.
Shanghai, China. The rioting Of
natives at Changsha continues. AL.
ready three missions, all situated on
the main street near the rice shops,
have been destroyed and fears are en-
%tertained for the safety of the other
missions.
The provincial treasurer has asked
the government to supply rice to the
natives in the hope of quieting them.
The scarcity of rice. due to it's having
been cornered, was the chief cause of
the outbreak, which has been long
coming. Recently the i'll feeling has
been increased by a%nti-foreign propa-
ganda, in which the lives of foreigners
were threatened. Another grievance
was found from the fact that the Brit
ish consulate building was constructed
by imported labor.
u. S. Cruiser on Way.
Annoy, China. - The cruiser Cleve-
land of the United States Asiatic
fleet has been dispatched to Hankow
because of the anti-missionary riots
at C~hangsha.
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President Taft has promised to 60
to Monroe, Mich, on June 4. and at
lend the unwilling Of a memorial
statue to General Custer.
The Scott bill to prohibit transac-
lions in cotton recently acted upon
favorably by the house committee On
agriculture. was report I'd to the house.
The average condition of winter
wheat on April l was 80.8 per cent,
against 82.2 April ].
Kansas has cancelled ball games
with Nebraska on the ground of Mis-
souri, valley eligibility rules.
Italians have bestowed the title of
peace apostle on Mr.. Roosevelt.
Halley's comet. 1t is said, will soon
be visible to the naked eye.
Secretary of War Dickinson de-
clarel false the newspaper statement
that Col. Hugh l.. Scott. superintend-
ent OF the military academy at West
Point, a to be relieved because of
his stand in the repression of hazing.
That the province of Quebec will
prohibit the expectation of pulp wood
cut on the crown lands of the prov
ince to the United States, was an
nounced in the legislature by Pre-
mier Gouin.
The interstate IN commits
sion says there should be less charge
for upper than lower Pullman berths.
"Reddy" Gallagher, a notorious
burglar, was killed with a club by a
Philadelphia householder.
The senate judiciary committee vot-
ed to recommend favorable action up
On the nomination of Robert T. Dew
lin for district attorney for the north
ern district of California.
A new assault on the rules of the
house is a prospect of the neal fu-
ture.
Frank Skala. a mission worker, was
shot dead by n of his fellows at
Pittsburg. Pa.
The knell of the Siberian exile sys-
tenn has been sounded by a declara-
ton Of the car.
Eight men were killed by an explo-
sion of dynamite in a Texas railroad
CONSTRUCTION CAMP.
The conference report on the mill
tary academy bill has been approved
by the house.
Courtenay w. Bennett, British coun-
sci general at New York in his an
nual report cautions immigrants
against assuming New York is an Ell
Dorado for the working man 1t is not,
he says.
Conscience-stricken after twenty.
three years because he cheated Gov.
ernor Stubs of Kansas out of eight
cen bushels of corn, an Usage county
is preparing to make restitution.
Two ~battleships were authorized by
the naval bill passed by the house.
Congress wants to know all about
the explosion which occurred a few
days ago on the cruiser Charleston, re-
in the death and injury of sew
eral sailors.
At Ponce, Porto Rico, William Jen-
nings Bryan made an address in
which he warmly approved the course
of the United States toward the island
Of Porto Rico.
The body of Justice Brewer was
taken to. Leavenworth. Kas., for bu.
rial.
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Big Crop Says Elliott.

New York. N. Y.-Howard w. FL
lott. president of the Northern Pacific
railroad. said before leaving for the
west that here will be a record crop of
wheat this year. There is the right
degree of moisture in the ground for
a fine yield, he said, and there is an
increased acreage under cultivation
The fruit yield also will be larger.
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Twin City Markets.

Minneapolis, April 19.-Wheat, May,
$l.O6A; July, $1.O7%; No. I northern,
$1.0SA; No. 2 northern, $1.O64; No.
l Durum, S8c, No. 4 corn, 43Ac; No.
) white oats, 40c; barley Gle; No. 2
rye. 73A; No. l fax. $2.35A.
Duluth, Apr. 19.-Wheat, May, 81 OF;
July. $1.O7%; No. l Northern, $1.OS.
South st. Paul, April 19.-Cattle-
Steers, $5.00@6.75; cows, fair, 1880
4.25; calves, $4.5005.5O. Hogs, 500
@9.35; sheep yearlings, 81. OO@S.OO;
lambs, $7.O0@8.OO.
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r. 1. TO ExPENo OVER 1900, 900.
Two Thousand Freight Cara and IS
Locomotives Needed BY Railroad.

Chicago. Illinois. 1t is officially
announced that the Rock Island rail-
road is in the market for approximate
ly $4,000, 900 worth of new equipment
and power. which will be in addition
to orders recently placed and neces-
stating an expenditure, of w 81. 0OO.~
900. The present need of the mpa
is for 1000 freight cars and IS locomo.
tiveS.
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General.

w. J. Bryan will sail for Scotland
In May.
Weston. the pedestrian, in his walk
from San Francisco to New York, is
fifteen days ahead of his time.
Robbers blew the vault of the First
National bank Of Spring City, Tenn,
and escaped with more than SO, 900.
The senate passed q bill introduced
by Senator Brown to release q S., 900
gold certificate for the First National
bank OF Minden, Neb.
President Taft will dine with skilled
workmen OF the New York navy yard
ct Brooklyn on the evening Of May II.
Twins were born in the Denver
(Colo.) county Jail to Mrs. Emmo
Jet, who is charged with the murder
OF her husband last September.
Substantial increases in wages by
the subsidiary companies of the
United States steel corporation have
been announced to become effective
.. May /.
4 Clifford Pinchot, in excellent humor,
concluded his visit with Mr.. Roose-
welt.
- Judge William H. Epson for years
leading Ohio politician, died at
Akron.
lOlonel Cooper of Tennessee was
kanted q pardon by Governor Pat
ters0n after the supreme court re-
AFFIRMED his twenty-year sentence.
An expedition which assembled
Mount Mckinley failed to find any
trace of the records of Dr.. Cook.
Extradition papers were issued for
the return from New York to Pitts.
burg of Bank President Hofstot.
In Toilette started a tempest in the
senate by q rabid attack on the ad-
ministration railroad bill.
The lavish use of lumber in the
United States per capita consumption
- from three to ten times greater
than that Of the leading nations of
Europe.
Quebec's probable prohibition Of the
expectation Of pulp wood to the
United States 10 regarded IS almost
unfriendly.
Gov. Shallenberger names April %
@ Arbor Day in Nebraska.
The memory Of the North American
Indian Ii to be perpetuated by q
statute memorial in New York harbor,
The outlook ID that the insurgents
intend giving Speaker Cannon another
whirl in the near future.
The Philadelphia street car strike
has been permanently settlei by con.
.cessions on both sides.
The expedition reached Mt. Nc
Kinley, but found no records of DR..
Cook.
A Utah man lost $1,000 by IRE. he
having hid the same in the stove
pipe unknowingly to his wife who
started the fame.
Il have no intention Of retiring
from President Taft's cabinet" de-
clared Secretary Macveagh.
Secretary Ballinger has opened for
settlement under the homestead act
3O4.OSO acres In Montana and $3.50
acres In New Mexico.
It is likely that there will be . con-
s~ressional investigation into the &60.-
200 sub-treasury shortage ct st.
Louis.
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CHICAGO Livestock.

Chicago, April 19.-Cattle-market
1Oc to 15c lower; beeves. $500 as so;
western steers. $4.9O@6.75; stockerA
and feedersi $3.75@6.4o: cows and
heifers. $2.7Od7.10: calves, s6.75M
$50.
Hogs-market zoe lower: light, $3.50
G9.S5; mixed, $9.3O@9.65; heavy,
$9.35@9.70; rough. s9.35G94O: good
to choice heavy. $9.4O@9.7O; pigs, 50
@9.65.
Sheep-market steady; native. $3.50
GS.35: western. $5G8.4O; y~earlings,
S.25q8.SO; lambs. native, $7.75M9.S0.
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his reelection, he will fight to the
last ditch. Otherwise he will quietly
r%elinquish his place.
This is the statement of Senator Al
drich's closest friends here. Aldrich
will not retire because of i'll health.
He is in splendid physical condition,
although occasional attacks of grip
make his dissatisfied and impatient.
1t is said he has refused to discuss the
subject of retiring.
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SEN. ALDRICH WILL QUIT!
6ut-He Will Fight for Office II Oppo.
sition Shows.

Washington. d. c. - The volun-
tary retirement of United States Sena-
tor Aldrich from public life at the
expiration of his present term next
March will depend on conditions that
develop hereafter.
If the senate insurgents seek to
drive him from power or his oppon-
ents in Rhode Island try to prevent
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Jap Spies In Ecuador.

Lima. April lS.-Insistent rumors
that Japan is Offering aid to Peru in
her threatened war with Ecuador in
exchange for concessions from Peru.
received further support by the arrest
of a Japanese at Guayaquil, Ecuador.
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MRS. TAFTs SECRETARY QUITS

Washington, d. c. Having served
seventeen days as private sec
rotary to Mrs. Taft, mistress of the
White House, Miss Mary cambridge
Spiers has resigned, and resumed her
duties in the war department. Her
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Duke to Visit CHICAGO.

Chicago, April II. Reservations
were made at a Chicago hotel for the
Duke of Connaught. brother of King
Edward VII, who expects to visit Chi:
cage in August.
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Purdue Coach Is Selected.

Lafayette, Indiana. The special
committee for the selection of a foot.
ball coach for Purdue university has
selected NJ. F. Horn.
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successor has not yet been chosen.
All that Miss Spiers would say in re-
gard to the matter was:
You a simply say that l thought
it best to resume my duties at the wal
department.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-04
PACKING THE CONVENTIONS.
Linn County standpatters Prepare t
Gain Control,

Linn Sounty STAND atterS prepare 70
Gain Control.
Special to Times-Republican.
Cedar Rapids, May 4.-Linn county
republicans of the standpat brand met
in conference here yesterday after
noon at the Montrose hotel. The meet
ing was called for the purpose Of dis
cussing the situation with reference
to the election of delegates to the
county convention. 1t was suggested
that in every precinct a list of dele
gates be prepared n Instructions
given to all standpatters to vote for
the accredited list, in order that so
far as possible each precinct be rep
resented by standpatters. 1t was
pointed out hat two years ago the
election of delegates in several pre-
cincts practically went by default, or
the precincts sent progressive dele
gates to the convention when it might
have been possible to elect standpat
delegates. The conference simply had
to do with the choosing of delegates to
the county convention, the evident
purpose being t osena county delegates
to the state convention who would
vote for an endorsement, by resolution.
of the administration of President
Taft, and resolve in favor of the popu-
larity of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law.
Bernard Murphy of the Vinton Eagle,
standpat generalissimo for the Fifth
district, was present at the conference.
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ST. Louis Livestock.
DEATH AT GAINESVILLE.
Mrs. j. e. Neal, Wife Of Restaurant
Keeper, Victim Of ApopIexy.

Special to %IlmeS-RepuDllcan-
GAINESVILLE, May AIRS. ]. E. Neal,
a well-known bushes woman Of this
place, died suddenly last night Of APP
oplexy. Mrs. Neal had spent a part of
the afternoon visiting a neighbor. At
ter gathering green's on her way home.
she complained of feeling ill on her ar
rival at the restaurant which she, with
her husband, conducted. A physician
was summoned but when he arrived
Mrs. Neal was dead.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neal had been in the
restaurant business here for twenty
five years, and are among the most
highly-respected business people of the
town. Mrs. NeaPs maiden name was
Miss James Taylor, and she vas born
in NJ. Pleasant, N. Y, March 20. 1876.
She came To Iowa with her grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Archer, in
1869 and was married to Mr.. Neal in
October, 1870. The husband and one
son, the latter, William Albert, sur
vive.
The funeral services have not been
fully arranged, but probably will be
held Thursday afternoon from the
home.
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STRANGE FREAKS Of NATURE
WeI-Authenticated Cases Of Dumb.
ness Which Scientists Arc Un.
able to Explain.

The London Lancet recently dug up
from its old files the following story:l
A far1aer of Somersetshire made a
vow in the presence of his wife never.
to speak to her again If she bore him
another daughter. He already had
three. A son was born, but, strange
to say, when the child became old
enough to talk and did talk to his
mother and sisters, the father could
never get a word out Of him." and
what was more. the boy could not talk
to my a This was assumed In the
neighborhood to be a punishment %
the man for his rash vow. The re-
publication Of this curious case led to
the appearance Of another similar talo
of intermittent aphonia, vouchsd for
by a clergyman Of Bath. In this in.
stance a young man Of 20 years had
never spoken to his father nor to any.
one in the neighborhood but his moth
er and sisters. And he could not talk
with them in the '%preseAce Of his ia
Their. But when he visited the clergy
man in a neighboring town he talked
as well as any one. When asked for
explanation. of his curious actions
he had none to offer. 81 simply can't
talk. no matter how hard I try" was
the substance of his answer. He had
heard something Of a rash VOW" BY
his father. but could give no further
details. II these stories are to be C
cepted as true, they may perhaps be
explained as the result Of what are
fixed IDEAS" which sometimes
dominate slightly disordered O un-
efoodv mlnda
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-04
CALL DENTIST EARLY IN LIFE.
Weak Faces Can Be Made Strong II
Undertaken Soon Enough.

Des Moines, May 4.-Dr. Frederick
p. Moves, of Northwestern University,
Chicago. declared in a speech before
the convention of the Iowa Dental So
ciety that if dentists were put on the
lob early enough in life a weak face
could be made over into a strong one.
There is nothing to the theory h a
a prominent or strong chin indicates
determination or character" he said.
ut indicates rather a perfect formation
Of the teeth. The most handsome peo-
pie are those whose teeth meet proper
ly. Many weak chins could be made
strong and looks thereby improved If
the dentist was put on the job soon
enough"
The subject of DR.. Noyes' speech was
"Orthondontia." a study of the develop
ment of the face.
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Coon RAPIDS Goo. prv.

Coon Rapids. May 4.-This town
went dry on very short notice. The
two saloons closed their doors last
evening as the result of action taken
by the mayor and council Monday night
The council by unanimous vote de-
cided to revoke the licenses Of the sa-
loonkeepers. From this action there
is no appeal and the two thirst parlor
magnates complied with the mandate
with the best grace possible.
The loss Of their licenses is said tC
be due in part to the strenuous OBJ
lection they made to the action Of the
council in raising the fee from s1,70(
to $500 a year The city officials
grew weary of the fuss and decided to
wipe out the whole business.