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HOISIAID ursux em UILA "uen of the insurgent army, has evaded the government forces sent out to check him, and by a flank movement has taken the city of Granada. President Taft came out flatly in favor of a budget system, by which the government's finances may be regulated, in a speech which he delivered before the board of trade at Newark, N. J. The president talked of waste in the various departments of the government and suggested that the way to curb It is to have a system such as is in vogue in other countries where a schedule of expenditures is made up with reference to the income. His speech with its various suggestions as to government economy, was regarded as the keynote of a campaign to be carried on by the administration looking to the reduction in the high cost of living. Eight directors of the New York Consolidated Milk Exchange-the institution which is said to be responsible for putting up the price of milk in this city-were indicted by the grand jury. Each of the men is accused of aiding in the restraint of trade in violation of the state law governing trusts and monopolies. In opening the defense of New York Senate Leader Jotham P. Allds to the charge preferred against him by Senator Benjamin Conger of having accepted a bribe of $1,000, his counsel, Martin W. Littleton, announced that Senator Allds had filed with the clerk of the senate his resignation as president pro tem. Following the discovery that the National City bank of Cambridge at Boston had been looted of $144,000, the doors of the institution were closed probably forever, by National Bank Examiner Pepper, acting on behalf of the comptroller of the currency. Later a warrant was issued for the arrest of George W. Coleman, the young bookkeeper of the bank. Three dead, three lying at the point of death in hospitals and more than a thousand persons injured is the toll exacted by the reign of lawlessness which has existed in this city for four days as the result of the street car strike at Philadelphia. The justices of the supreme court of Illinois, at a meeting in Chicago, issued an order directing that all further proceedings in the Joyce case, which resulted in the parole law of 1899 being declared invalid, be stayed until the April term of court. Charles Smith, a painter in desperate straits, told New York physicians he was so hungry that he allowed himself to be knocked down and run over to get the price of a meal. A woman whose buggy ran over him gave him five dollars. "I'll get you," shouted Bowman B. Seybert, aged 80, as he sat dreaming in a chair in a Butler (Pa.) livery stable. He then began shooting and awoke to find himself seriously wounded. School slates and sponges have been barred by McKeesport (Pa.) health officials, who declare them to be germ breeders in scarlet fever, upon which they are waging a fight. A Japanese, supposed to have been bent on the assassination of some high official, was killed at Amoy, China, by the accidental ignition of a high explosive in his clothing. The mob, the bomb and the torch held command of the street car strike situation at Philadelphia. Martial law was declared in some parts of the city, but the rioters made a farce of it. They stripped the uniforms from the backs of the State Fencibles, the one military organization that was called out, and threw coats, hats and rifles into the sewers. All over town there was rioting and stoning of cars and there were several burnings and one bad case of dynamiting. The last of Senator Conger's evidence in support of his charge that Senator Jotham P. Allds demanded and received $1,000 nine years ago, for "protecting" the bridge companies against hostile legislation, was laid before the senate. Conger's attorneys announced that they rested their case. "If I was permitted to do so, I would undertake to run the government of the United States for $300,000,000 a year less than It now costs." This was the declaration of Senator Nelson W. Aldrich in a speech In the senate in which he indicted the government on the charge of extravagance. President Taft was cheered by 600 police lieutenants of New York, whose guest he was at their annual banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria. The president had previously delivered an address before the Society of the Cincinnati of the state of New Jersey, an aristocratic affair held at the Hotel Plaza. Adolph Wolgast is lightweight champion of the world. After a gruelling battle at Point Richmond, 12,000 fight fans saw Battling Nelson's colors lowered. After 40 rounds of the gamest fight ever witnessed, bleeding,
