Show claims manila has a most healthful climate alcisco an cisco june 27 the pacific mail liner manchuria arrived to day from the orient via honolulu with a largo list of passengers and a cargo of nearly tons she left yokohama on june alth and honolulu june gaining two anya on tho run from hong kong among tho passengers on the manchuria were major general leonard wood and wife who are on a flying trip to tho east hamilton king american minister to slam returning on account of ill health accompanied by his wife count hiroki achl mutsu en route to london to resume his duties as secretary to the japanese embassy lieutenant commanders H hutching and A W dodd and lieutenant J J raby who after three years service in the philippines are coming back for shore duty and captain H dorsey i aide de camp to general wood general wood says that conditions in the philippines are rapidly improving the insubordinate natives are being subdued and tho entire country soon will be peaceful he declares that manila Is much more healthful than Is generally supposed and as an evidence of his belief in this statement said he had left his children behind he will go direct to washington tomorrow though he does not expect to visit washington he will be the guest of president roosevelt at oyster bay the general declares positively that his trip Is for purely personal purposes and has no political significance A ROAST FOR THE RICH benjamin ida wheeler tells of sad lives hanover N H june 27 today was given over chiefly to the alumni in the commencement proceedings at dartmouth college the alumni association bold a public meeting at which the principal address was given by president benjamin cje wheeler of the university of california one of tha saddest of lives pursued by wealth president wheeler eald consists of their isolation aiom humanity people who maintain steam yachts and dine French tully at night and flit between lenox and newport and palm beadli and hornburg are naturally and automatically driven into tho society of the like conditioned and bound there their sons artand the academies their daughters are polished oft at the same elite schools their sons and daughters meet together and aliey inter marry aej inter dl voice and the caste of the great rich emerges sound judgment and clear perspective in these motives and movements of human life aro seldom found among tha people of the caste who drag the golden ball and chain we need ho declared national laws for divorce tor the oversight of for the regulation of the traffic of the great national system of railways we are a nation and must have national laws for national concerns it behooves us while holding fast to local safeguards for local interests to court the inspire atlon of the aicher national lifo and be americans KILLED HIS WIFE and then shot himself because of disgrace seattle wash juno 27 joseph C abbott an electrician and bartender shot and killed hla wife known aa dolly gilson and made an attempt to kill himself which will probably prove successful today in a lodging house abbott left a letter in which he said he could not bear the disgrace his wife had brought upon them he said he had pleaded with her to lead a better life but it had done no good and be had decided on shooting the woman and hiat elf abbott had been lodging at the house for three weeks but the hotel employed emp loyes say they never baw the woman until this morning when they broke into the room after bearing the pistol shots EQUITABLE DIRECTORS RESIGN new york juno 27 snail man morton announced today that john jacob astor of this city and J B president of the first national forgan bank of chicago had tendered their resignations as director the equitable |