The new era., 1910-01-06

It Is reported that the building Of
the Amur railroad. 1880 miles long, at
a cost of S15O.O00. 900. is being hurried
owing to representations of Russion
officials that there is danger of sec
ond war with Japan in consequence of
the struggle for control In Manchuria.
1t is proposed that the French cham
ber of deputies shall vote by electricity
next year A screen will be placed
near the secretary's table containing
the names of the deputies. and against
each name will be FIVE spaces, marked
Present" Absent. "Yes," INC"
vote unrecorded."
Robinson Watson. in a statement
telegraphed to New York from Mon
treal, reiterates that his brother, VIII
liam Watson, the English poet. now in
Havana, is insane. although the poets
wife, who is with him. is unaware Of
her husbands mental condition. Mrs.
Watson has cabled from Havana that
the statement is wicked attempt to
injure her husband.
Governor Noel has announced the
appointment of Col James Gordon of
Oklahoma as United States senator
from Mississippi to succeed the late
Senator A. ]. McLaurin. The appoint
ment is temporary until the Legisla-
ture can elect senator for the unex-
pired term and is made with the un-
derstanding that Senator Gordon will
not be candidate for this term.
The battleship Utah, the greatest
warship ever built in the United
States, was launched December 23rd
from the yard of the New York Ship
building Company at Camden, N. j.
The vessel was christened by Mary
Alice Spry, daughter of Governor Spry
of Utah. who was present with his
family, together with the members of
Congress from Utah and representa-
tives of the Utah Legislature.
In his opening address to the inter-
national Zionist congress at Hamburg.
David Wolffsohn of Cologne. president
of the executive committee, said that
Zionists must not believe that 1t is
their duty to follow the Young Turks
without discrimination. They are
merely political party of the Otto
man empire and 1t would be tactless
and unwise for the Zionists to mix in
Turkish political affairs by committing
their cause to any political party.
Francis ]. Heney of San Francisco
has filed formal complaint in his New
York suit against William H. Crocker.
the California millionaire, basing his
action on an open letter bearing Mr..
Crocker's name which appeared in =
New York evening newspaper Decem-
ber 3rd, in which Mr.. Crocker defend
ed his action in first supporting Heney
in the San Francisco graft prosecu-
tions and later withdrawing his sup
port.
A committee which was appointed
by the Brooklyn neighbors of DR.. Cook
some months ago to raise funds for
the erection Of a monument to the
explorer, has decided to go on with its
work, in spite of the cables from Co
penhagen. "Dr. Cook" according to
one member of the committee, "as q
noble martyr. The rest of the world
may take the word of those indoor
polar explorers over in Copenhagen,
but his neighbors In old Bushwick
know that DR.. Cook discovered the
pole, because he told us SO himself.
The special committee Of the Uni
versity of Copenhagen that investi-
gated DR.. Frederick A. Cooks polar
records, is now considering whether 1t
shall publish second report. giving
further details of its work. II the COM
mittee should decide to do SO, it will
issue the report about the middle Of
January. A member of the COMMITTEES
says that some of the details Of Cook g
narrative we're fabricated and his pa
pers showed that he had used calcula-
tions furnished by Captain Loose. The
second report, he added. would pre-
sent evidence to that effect. ''