Semi-weekly herald., 1910-01-27

church in a sermon yesterday, said !:
"To jail with the oppressors of the
poor. There is no civilized country
on the globe that is so enslaved that
has its vitality sapped to such degre e
as has the United States by the
trusts"
The Rev. Henry NJ. Warton of Brabt.
ly Baptist church, referring to the
meat boycott, said:
If such great movement does not
alarm trusts and wake up our con.
gress. then something else will hap
pen. The first mutteriug is of distant
thunder-God save us from the storm. "
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 24.-While no
radical action with respect to the anti.
meat movement was tal,en by the in.
dustrial trades council here yesterday.
delegates TO the council, representing
$1,000 workingmen, pledged them.
selves to introduce at the next meet.
inf of their various organizations an
antitrust meat resolution.
PARIS. Jan. 25-Dylamite was re.
sorted to today by the authorities to
save Paris from destruction by flood
The historic Pont de s.ahna. one of
the most famous of bridges npanning
the Seine, was blown up to prevent
the formation OF a disastrous dam
AT every other bridge engine ars were
in constant guard all night and they
were ready to take sirnilar steps at
the first sign of cris S.
There is no relief from fl)od con
ditions. To add to the suffe ring the
warm rains changed to heavy snow
fhis morning. and it is impossible for
engineers to watch condi ions as close
ly as they had before.
Many lives are reported lost in the
collapse of buildings in The outskirts
1t was only after night of terror
that the use of dynamite was decided
upon. The sappers. rislsi ag their lives
with the dare-deviltry of campaigners
had struggled futilely all night at the
Pont de Lahna to get away with the
choked debris under the arches So
high was the water thai the wreck
age could not pass from under. and IL
stacked up an effective barrirade of
barrels beams. timber parts OF
houses and all the flotslm OF flood
against which the water pushed with
almost immeasurable force. Dawn
broke without any sign of relief in
the city. The water was Iisin, stead.
ily and the hours before noon almost
overlapped the levels of the highest
bridges and quays.
Scarcely a telephone or telegram
line from the city is working and
four of the six underground railways
stopped in several places, the water
being almost the height of tie cars.
AT Place du Havre this morning
sewers burst at three places almost
throwing uu great
geyser and flooding the neiehborhood
for blocks.
The st. Lasere strand is partially
Isolated and there is even Indications
that within a short time 1t W ould be
entirely cut off
COLORADO SPRINGS, Coln, Jan.
25.-Mirs. Grace Depew. phase 81
room bungalow at the foot OF Chey.
enne mountain. is nearing completion,
has imported an artist decorator from
New York 10 furnish il and will ex-
pend 100000 on interior The artist
is Elsie DeWolf, who arrived al the
Antlers hotel today. and will imme-
diately undertake the decora ion con
tract
CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 25.-Agitators
against the high cost of living gained
their first victory here in tile battle
against the prevailing food prices yes.
terday, when reduction of 3 per
cent to per cent was annoan eed in
the Wholesale price of eggs, butter po-
tatoes, pork products and tie better
grades of dressed beef cuts. Big re
cessions were also made in the value
o. live hogs, cattle and sheep, and in
the quotations on wheat. corn, oats
and provisions on speculative markets.
or chief benefit to the housewives
were the declines in butter which drop
ped cents a pound wholesale and
II eggs which receded 3 cents 81 dozen
LONDON, Jan. 25-ConclusIye eyi.
dence that Premier Asquith will again
accept the post of leader OF the gov.
ernment party was today shown in a
semi-official announcement that he is
a cabinet meeting this week
inasmuch as the only possible purpose
of a cabinet meeting would be to out.
line the plans for the coming session
OF parliament, there is no longer any
doubt that Asquith viii accept the
reins of the government.
NEW YORK. Jan. 25-A balloon
trip across the Atlantic will be at
tempted in May. New York and Ber.
lii capitalists are beIinG the scheme
and a big dirigible for the PURPOSE
Is now being constructed in Germany.
The big bag Will have two fifty horse