Putnam patriot., 1910-07-01
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General Pof1do Dinz was elected President of Mexico on Tuesday by an overwhelming majority, with Ramon aorrai S Vice President The result is ibai Dfaxts administration will con iinue another sig yeafs-iaaktng cou. tinuous Presidency Of E years. thefe WAS opposition, which took revolution ary form, the lender of which ia now In prison. Dlax has proved himself great statesman, When he Was placed in power 2B years ago, Mexico was sab- Jeet to continuous revolutions and in. sufrections. like the other Latin kefnb Hes, but Diaz crushed them eul with high hand. Gradually, however he trained the Mexieans to appreciate fl stable government, and new, in every way, Mexico has government like the United States. Both the President and Vice President afe fast friends of their Big. Brother north of tl1em.
 Count Zeppelin undertook tn carry thirty.thfee passengers i'll nn airsbip from Dusseldorf to Doftmund, Germa- ny, thirly-five miles distant. \ high storm arose, which caused the venture. some passengers thrilling experience. The aifshIp finally landed on top Of a large pine tree and was totally wreck" cd The passengers, however, man. aged to get down to Mother Earth in safety.
 Mass, where he will spend three or four months, lo find fest after his stten- uous public He the past eight months. Part of the White House executive force went with him, the resi- remain ing In Washington.
 1t K expected that Theodore Roose- welt will be named by President Taft as chairman of the commission author ized by Congress to report plans for per manent and world. wide peace, thereby relieving the nations of the burdens Of armament.
 While Congress did we'll to appfopfi- ate SsoO .0OU to be used in raising the wreck of the bait'eship Maine from the bottom of Havana hafbor, Il alfea- dy seems impfob able thni the ship will ever be fioated unless more money is provided.
 Mayor Seidel, who was elected May or of Milwaukee as Socialist, says. "Many are wondering If we have in- troduced socialism in Milwaukee. l am frank to confess that we have not, and it will be long time before we shall be able to de so." Nevertheless he has given Milwaukee q model ad- ministration that has accomplished much to improve the city and pleased sll its good citizens. As he says. "Ne round the board of public works a thFee.headed monster, with tentacles reaching into corporation and contrac- tors offices. When We set to work to Kill the monster, the Republicans and Democrats told us we couldn't do il, We said nothing, but went ahead and killed II. It does net require ~ocial- Ism, Republicanism. or Democracy to give city good administration. Ky eleeilng honest, eapanle men of any party il alone can he dane.
 John Ii. staneheli, eae of the great New York lawyers, secured ihe ae- qatttal of Fritz Augustus tieinse, the seopper King, charged with ovet.esr- tiiieation and misapplication of the funds of the Mercantile National bank while ils president--feceised a check for ssno 0a, the largest fee ever reeeis- cd in criminal case. Legislatures have been bought for less than half that sum.
 A writer in the "ceographieal Jour nal, says that In Western Africa he saw slavery carried on as cruel ss any ever witnessed in any country. While in one village he saw seven slaves held by the leg in wooden stocks, who had been in thai position for months until purchaser came along. oae poor wretch, who was not attractive. had been kept in thai position two yesn.
 A race of pigmies has been discover ed in New Guinea by an expedition sent out by the British or,honologists Union. The dwarfs were found al al altitude of a.0oo. The news is regarded as of the highest scientific importance
 J.H. Hale, Connecticut $ great peacl grower snow tn Geofsia. says that with In ten miles of his orchard ..are si, million tsses, harvesting hundreds Q caricsds daily. The Hale orchard l. working a0o people and ships 500 crases day.
 Goodwin Smith, of Toronto. recentl, deceassd, who vas early identified witl Cornell Untverslty, ieft the bulk of hi essaie. .so that alinssilution. The will says
 ssl make this bequest to show my al tachment to the Uniyeuity, to pay res peoe . Exra Cornell, and SO show m, atlachment, as an Engliahmen. to th unioa q tho two bsanches of our roc on this continent and with sheis con D0n Ueshss.n