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Show Condensed Telegrams The Bath (Mo ) Morchants association tonight adopted a resolution Indorsing petitions pe-titions for clemency ln behalf of Charles W. Morse. Bath is Mr. Morse's birthplace. birth-place. With dusk last night, reassuring reports re-ports como to Boston from the many New England cities and towns that have been menaced by floods that havo not been equaled for fifty years. Everywhere tho rivers are steadily falling. President Taft ln an address last night before the Dartmouth college alumni, ln the presence of their new president, Ernest Er-nest Fox Nichols, praised the value of small colleges and paid a trlbuo to Speaker Speak-er Josoph G. Cannon, who had preceded him in speaking- Salaries of tho Judges of tho court of customs appeals created by tho new tariff law. were practically fixed by the house yesterday at $7000 each. The tariff law-named law-named $10,000- This figuro. which Is $3000 in excess of salaries received by circuit court Judges provoked in congress a controversy con-troversy which has been kopt alive evor since. The appeals of tho officials of tho American Amer-ican Federation of Labor to the supreme court of the United Slates growing out of the suit of tho Buck Stove and Range company against them In the District of Columbia were yesterday ordered consolidated consol-idated by the court and set a hearing for the first Tuesday in the term beginning next October. President Taft yesterday approved the recommendations of the superintendent of the naval academy at Annapolis for the dismissal of Midshipman James M. whitehead white-head of Now Jersey, Scott Lynn of Utah, and Grovor C. Clcvengcr of Missouri. Tho midshipmen were charged with Intoxication Intoxica-tion during the Christmas holidays. All .three were on tho eve of being graduated. Sidney Flower, recently tho publisher of a magazine ln Goldilcld. Nov., was arrested ar-rested ln Chicago yesterday by tho federal fed-eral authorities on instructions that ho had been Indicted in Nevada charged with fraudulent uso of tho mails. Ho Ib said to have been known as Parmoter Kant in Goldfleld. The hearing has boon set for February 3. Flowor was unable to furnish fur-nish $5000 ball and was locked up. Another well-defined earthquake of moderate Intensity was recorded by the weather bureau seismograph at Washington Wash-ington as beginning at 1:55 -10 o'clock yes-.tcrday. yes-.tcrday. Us strongest motion occurring five minutes later. It continued about fifty minutes. Officials believe the disturbance dis-turbance occurred about 1300 miles from Washington, probably to tho southward. The scene of the activity Is thought to have been between Cuba and Jamaica. Everett C. Brown, president of the Amateur Athlotlc Union of Amcricn, announced an-nounced In Chicago last night that ho would glvo his official approval to the plan to send a team of American athletos to compete ln world's games at the Gcr-man-Amorlcan exposition in Berlin this summer. Mr. Brown was Informed by James E. Sullivan, former president of the national body, that J. P- Morgan and August Belmont, sponsors for American Interests in the exposition, thought athletic ath-letic ames should bo one of tho features. A man, whom the police regard as the most Important suspect arrested In connection con-nection with the maniacal murder of tho Shlbloy and Thomas boys, about two weeks ago, was arretted In New York, yesterday. Ho Is Herbert Jerome Dennl-i son, twenty-seven years old, formerly on the vaudeville stage as a magician and only recently discharged from a sanitarium. sanitari-um. Dcnnlson wns arraigned on a charge of murder and hold for examination tomorrow. to-morrow. Lawrence Casey, a park foreman, fore-man, who saw the shooting, has made a partial Identification. |