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CUBAN CONGRESS
ASSEMBLES AT HAVANA
No Legislative Power Until After Trans-
fer of Government.
WILL PASS UPON CREDENTIALS.
General Wood Made an Address, Wishing the
Legislators Success in the Work They Were
About to Enter Upon— Senators Met in the
ate and House of Representatives assem-
bled at noon Monday.
gundo and the representatives in the
Comandancia General De La
building.
Governor General Leonard Wood
made an address wishing the legislators
success in the work upon which they
were about to enter.
that no legislative power would be vest-
ed in the insular congress until after the
formal transfer of the government. Their
work now was to pass upon credentials
and to inform the military government
officially who had been elected president
and vice-president, senators and mem-
bers of the House of Representatives
The position of president pro tem. in
the Senate and the House was unami
mously accorded to the oldest member
of each body. Salvator Cisneros was
elected president of the Senate, while
Pedro Albarran was elected president of
the Representatives
After appointing c
upon credentials both bodies adj
ymmittee to pass
ourned.
MILLIONS OF EGGS STORED.
Big Packers Are (Gradually Starving Out
Small Shippers.
Kansas City, Mo,
packing houses have made such inroads
~The big
{ Special } =X
into the business of packing and ship-
ping eggs and poultry for consumption in
Eastern markets th
small shippers in this
is threatened with uction,
to members of the Produce
sociation of Kansas
which met here tc n
John Stewart, of
president of the association,
packers are firmly
do not believe that we
oppose them.
the recent o
could he lled a
ever, I do know that four bi
stored 144.000.000 eggs, Or 400.000
At this time last year more th
000,000, Or 3.000.000 Cases,
storage. 1
this year, 1
at the business of the
destr
} €
SO
CASES
an 1,000,
were
IRS
PROBIBITION STATE 21 YEARS.
Governor Stanley, of Kansas, Says Effect
Has Been Beneficial
Topeka, Kan
years ago pre
Kansas :
effect as foll
“Proh
marked :
this is apparen
through Kans:
license States
note the
men in the t
sands of
never
A
(Special Iw
differen
the saloon if
ducted, as tl
maelite amo
of the cor
Prince Cost $1,000 an Hour.
Chicago ]
{ Special) the
amount of 10 per cent
1
1} ~Rebates to th
eceived by
were
» the fund
of Proce Henry of
visited Chicago in
amount subscribed
the expense of the
rincely visit amounted $22,500
rince Henry arrived in Chicago at 6
of March 1 and
departed for Milwaukee at 2
following afternoon. Entertaining roy-
alty in Chicago cost over $1.000 an hour,
by averaging up the expenses. Out of
this all the numerous celebrations came,
eon the luncheon at the Germania
ub.
Prussia when he
March. The t
was $235000. and
tal
fo
o'clock the
Two Killed in Feud Fight.
Ola, Ky., (Special) —In a feud fight
on Beaver Creek, the border of
Knott and Lechter counties, William Os-
borne and Hiram Little were killed,
Sam Cook badly injured and George
Reedy slightly injured. It is stated that
Osborne and Little recently attempted to
shoot Cook and Reedy, who awaited the
victims along the highway
near
Waterspout in Oklabomas.
Anadarko, Okla., (Special). —A report
was received here of a waterspout at
Foss, a town on the Choctaw Railway,
in which it is said twelve persons were
drowned. The Washinta River is said
to have risen ten feet. Anadarko people
living on the bottoms fronting the river
are hurrying to higher ground.
Caught is Boiling Slag.
Harrisburg, Pa, (Special). —Word
three probably fatally injured and five
boiling over of slag in one of the open-
hearth mills of the Pennsylvania Steel
Works, at Steelton,
Shade-Grown Sumatra Lea’.
Hartford, Conn, (Special.)—The first
leaf was held here, all of this tobacco
raised in the Connecticut river valley in
the season of 1901 having been brought
in by agreement of the growers to be
sold by auction. There were dealers and
manufacturers present from New York,
Chicago and Boston. The prices varied
from $280, the highest, to 20 cents for
the lowest, the leaf of the low-priced
bales being dark and short.
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
The puddlers at the American Iron
and Steel Manufacturing Company's
three plants in Lebanon, Pa. and at the
Penn Iron Company's plant in Lancas-
ter, Pa, went on a strike.
Eighty-four Moro prisoners attempt-
ed tw escape from the American military
guard. The troops pursued and fired
upon them, killing 35 and capturing 9.
The Union Traction Company of Phil-
adelphia, leased all of the lines in the
city to the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Company
Mrs. Estrada Palma started with her
i family, from Newburgh, N. Y., to join
her husband in Havana
William Rabel, who killed his young
| wife in Fort Wyne, Ind, committed sui
{ cide in his cell
at Bryn Mawr
was begun
Miss Josephine Helman, who broke
College,
it 18 announced, will marry Eugene Bo-
i ross, of Budapest,
her on the steamer
Europe
while en route
York after a of
Orient.
icate has bought a
1 the Monon,
»
s 1
SNAashviiie
iturned to New
14,000 miles to the
| he
controlling
trip
(sates Vic
which
Road
int
gives his isville and
an. entrance to Chicago
Frank Smith died in Allentoy
from the effect of a blow
boxing bout with Hans Hartranft
Two hundred
the new N
Hoboken on a
A tornado near Centrey
stroyed property, killed
jured several people
The trial by co
Howard, a deser
States Army in
cluded at Mar
be pardoned because
government.
Adrian Britt, ;
editor of the Jac
and who, it is
ery of
received
ITONWOTrKCers
German
urt-m
ing an
ement i
The Congr
D d
rarty, winch
up in a free fight between the
factions.
a's condi
r phy
siCians, i
ved
British
haped provides
nally
three
Finance
for a
per hundredweight on
y. oats, rye, buckwheat,
pence on flour, meat,
starch
Over 1,000 people were kill
fighting between the Chin
the troops of Ching Shang
rebels also burned and looted
houses in other towns
Spanish florists are busy preparing
for the great battle of flowers. which
will be a feature of the coronation of
King Alfonso, May 17
John D. Rockefeller is behind the Vir-
ginia-North Carolina Chemical Com-
he
ei
cleaned
stores. and
fields
Fifty lives were lost in the burning of
a town on the right bank of the Damiet-
ta branch of the Nile.
Russian soldiers are beginning to show
disloyalty by refusing to act against the
people
to fire upon the rioters in Moscow
The officers and marines of the United
States cruiser Chicago, who were par.
doned by the King of Italy of the offense
| charged against them in Venice, have
| been released and deny the charges.
| The French Premier has called the
attention of the prefects of departments
recent elctions
although conducted with great secrecy.
| A French Jesuit priest was murdered
tree.
Financial.
St. Paul gross arnings in March in-
creased $200.464 and the net increased
$120,481,
Union Pacific March earnings show a
gross increase of $182,545 and a net in-
crease of $17.626.
It is again reported that the Louisville
& Nashville dividend will be increased
to 6 per cent. in July.
It was stated that about 30 per cen
of the proxies of the two classes o
stock issued by the United States Steel
Corporation have
of the $200,000,000 refunding plan.
MRS. KATE SOFFEL
HAS NO DEFENSE
Aided the Biddle Brothers to Escape
From Pittsburg Jail,
ENTERED A PLEA OF
Mrs. Soffel Entered the Room With a Firm
Step — She Was Accompanied Only by
Her Physician and Attorney, Having Made
8 Special Request That None of Her Rels-
tives Be Preseat
GUILTY.
Pittsburg, Pa, (Special). —Mrs. Kate
the sensational escape and recapture of
called into court and entered a plea of
guilty to the charge of aiding and abet
ting in the escape of prisoners.
The maximum penalty i
the penitentiary
I'he
1
doors,
§ two years in
courtroom was crowded to the
many women being present, and
much curiosity the
manifested.
Mrs. Soff
firm step
She wa
tO 8¢¢ prisoner
om with a
i 4% :
Biddles, after
ht have made
not
hivalry tha
were
¥y A
who naa
WANTS RHODES’ GIFT REFUSED.
Boer Says It Is Soiled With Blood of Women
and Children.
Wynne
s h
the
opportunity
init
aptain
n with me folks
that
communicati
cablegras
defended a brother officer from an at-
tack a mob and that there was no oc
casion for worry.
stated sender
her
oy
Pardons From ltaly.
Rome, Cable) ~The King
pardoned officers of United
cruiser Chicago who have been
{By has
the the
States
They will be im-
to the United
States Consul, from whose charge they
will be transferred to the Chicago, which
is ready to sail. United States Ambassa-
dor Meyer conferred with Signor Pri
netti, the foreign minister, and the re
lease of the American officers was ar-
ranged, conditioned upon the payment
imprisoned at Venice.
mediately handed over
will leave Venice aboard the cruiser Chi-
Cago.
Mysterious Deaths Near Parkersburg
Parkersburg, W. Va, (Special) —Two
the remains
started home from town and probably
At Cornwallis the body of an unknown
woman was found on the railroad track.
She is a stranger, and her presence there
can only be accounted for by the theory
that she jumped or fell from a passenger
train,
Patients Fire Pesthonse,
Deadwood, S. D., (Special) ~The pa-
tients in the County Pesthouse, who are
said to have secured a quantity of whis-
ky, overturned beds, destroyed the fur-
niture, indulged in fights, and, as a
climax, set fire to the building, which
was completely destroyed. Many of the
patients were in the worst stage of
smallpox and were rescued with diff.
culty. They were forced to remain out
on the hillside until morning, when the
sheriff and a force of deputies got them
LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS,
McKinley's Doctors’ Bille.
Congress wiil pay the funeral ex-
penses of President McKinley, including
the doctors’ bills, over which there has
been so much contention.
An item is to be inserted in the Ur-
gent Deficiency bill, now under consid-
eration by the House Committee on Ap-
propriations, which provides for an ap-
propriation of $50,000 to defray the ex-
penses attending the death and burial of
the President
The committee has gone fully into the
question of compensation to the doctors
who attended the wounded Executive
and has decided that, notwithstanding
the physicians declined to submit a bill
for their respective services, they are
entitled to liberal fees for their efforts
to save the President's lie.
It is understood that an agreement
has been reached whereby $31,000 of the
amount to be appropriated shall go to
| the doctors and the remainder will be
{used to defray the funeral expenses.
Friends of the dead President and oth-
| consulted, and it is believed that the al
{ lowance thus made is
and reasonable, but will be entirely sat
isfactory all concerned
{of all the expenses incurred were
mitted to the
n will
government
to
sub
committee,
iamed bligations of th
COvVer all {
Postponement of the Fair.
Secretary Hay ha
a letter
mg the louis:
irom 1003 to
i ed
ana Purchase
1904
Incl with letter from
hatrman Carter, government
OD
om Presi
Con
im
offered
avil Ap-
Ladybug to Fight San Jose Scale.
Vetsartment of
Agriculture is
Verses ana re
sahil
unadic t
age being di
Root Says the Task Is Great
Secretary Root wrote to Senator Cul
berson an explanation of the reason why
the War Department thus far has made
response to the Senate resolution
lopted April 17 calling for exact and
detailed statements of the cost of the
in the Philippines. He will show
that from the moment the resolution was
received every one of the supply bureaus
of the War Department has been en-
gaged in collecting material for the an
swer
a great one
no
Mexico Refuses to Give Up Krate
The State Department has been noti-
fied that the Mexican Government has
finally refused the application of
United States Government for the sur-
{render of Charles Kratz, an ex-council-
man of St. Louis, charged with bribery
He has been held under arrest at Guana-
lajara, the Mexican Government having
consented to his provisional detention
| the request.
!
:
Capital News ln Geseral
| government authorities have the right to
order the deportation to China of China-
men caught here claiming to be on their
way to other countries.
An urgency resolution making an addi-
| tional appropriation of $10,000 for the
expenses incident to the dedication of
the statue of Marshal de Rochambeau
| was adopted by the House.
{ The tine sion of the Gaulois, the
| battleship that will bring the representa-
tives of the French Government to at-
tend the unveiling of the Rochambeau
monument, has been definitely fixed at
Annapolis.
Senator Lodge made an eloquent
speech in the Senate in defense of the
Administration's policy in the Philippines
and also in defense of the American
army in the archipelago.
The President appointed B. G. Squiers
secretary of the legation at China, to be
minister to Cuba, and Gen, E. S. Bragg,
of Wisconsin, to be consul general at
Havana.
The State Department received a dis-
patch from Bogota that General Valen-
cia, with 3000 Col n government
troops, was on the way to prevent the
revolutionists attacking Panama.
¥
FIERCE BATTLE
WITH THE MOROS
Bullets Their Reply to General Davis’
Ultimatum,
3 OFFICERS AND 20 MEN WOUNDED
American Artillery Shell Two Forts on Min
danao Island, the Filipinos Stubberaly De.
fending Them Ope Fort Captured, Bui
Not Until After the Infantry Reach the
Ditch—Messenger's Fate Unknown.
Manila, (By Cable) —~General Davis
in command of the American forces ir
the Island of Mindanao, cables that his
ultimatum has not been answered, that
his messenger has not returned and that
the American outposts were fired upon
The troops advanced and shelled Moro
fort, but did not capture it until the in.
This fort
fantry reached the ditch. was
Fort Panda Padto was then surr
i
General Davis also reports that
of the
SCTIOUSIY
Wagner
.
has 1}
r
Infantry, been
other
that two
inded ar
i
wounoceao
Washingt
Department
General ( hafice
following
to talk
Mes Sane
Messenger
r
hundred vy:
ntered
COURT-MARTIAL ON BATTLESHIP.
Arrested in Venice to Be Tried on
the Hlinols at Naples.
Officers
Spotted Fever.
Helena, Mont, (Sg
retas yi the State board
eft
yecial d
Longeway
cientists
the disease has been fatal
present time it has baffled
all physicians who have
to investigate it. Several emi.
nent New York scientists have been in-
now commenced by the State.
Veolcano's Askes Cover # Town.
St. Thomas (By Cable).—Advices re-
ceived here from the Island of Martin.
ique announce that the volcano on Mont
Pelee, had been inactive
within the last
which
has
since
week been
The
town of St. Pierre was covered with
inch, and appears to be enveloped in
fog. Great consternation prevails thers
A Princess Attempts Suicide,
London (By Cable). ~—A dispatch from
ish pretender, attempted suicide by
throwing herself into the Tiber, but was
rescued. Private troubles are supposed
to have prompted the act.
Killed by a Live Wire.
Piedmont, W. Va, (Special) Robert
Kuhnle, a chemist for the West Virginia
Pulp and Paper Company, and son of J.
Christopher Kunhle, was instantly kill.
ed by a live electric wire in the base
ment of his father’s house.
Ad ABE ANS cl
Claims Masy Millloas
Washington, D. C, (Special) —
Messrs. Egbert Jamieson, Dudley and
Michener and Robert Christy, as attor:
neys for John Celestin Landreau, have
filed with the Secretary of (" mte a i
tion against the Government of Peru
claiming a one-half interest in the re
ward, amounting to $15,000,000, promised
x that government to his brother, J
heophile Landreau, the original dis.
coverer of valuable deposits of guano
upon its seacoast and Littoral Islands in
1868, :
| POTTER PALMER DIES SUDDENLY.
| _—
Was One of Chicago's Mest Prominent Busi
| ness Men Had Nervous Trouble
Chicago, (Special) —Potter Palmer,
. for nearly half a century one of Chica
gos most prominent business men, died
' at Lake
Palmer's death
He had
( been suffering for several weeks with a
his residence on Shore drive,
The exact cause of Mr
| has not yet been determined.
nervous disorder, but, as he was able to
be about the house, his condition was not
i thought to be serious
When he retired Saturday night he
| was feeling, if anything, better than for
{ several During the night, how-
he all his energy,
ind Sunday morning was unable to leave
room He gradually grew ;
day. and at 5:40 0c
$3
11 ¢
udden collapse, iron
days
ever, seemed to lose
his
ring the
ing the
RAN AWAY WITH ROBBERS.
| Train Flew By Their Confederates at a Mile
8 Misute.
May Fight Morgan With Subsidy.
{ abie $ 18 venort
mntensely }
ousands of
i
} Stores were destro
Many Fishermen Lost
ama, (By Cable) Two hur
Ad £
f3v Belprmen 5 . 4
CG NIYy ashermen are reported to
have been drowned in
nade havoc of the herr
n the west coast of Jap
roe nser Musashi was
Lut her crew
The Japan
iriven ashore,
were saved
ODDS AND ENDS OF THE NEWS
The Natiomal Association of
Furnace and
formal demand upon the United
| Steel Corporat
i bons for an eight-hour day
E. A. Dixon was sent to jail for 12
! months in Richmond, Va., for adminis-
| tering knockout drops to J. A. Lamb,
i of Petersburg
A motion was made in the British
House of Commons with a view of hav-
{ ng the government interfere to prevent
| the consummation of the big shipping
syndicate, which, after debate showing
its serious character, was withdrawn.
A vote in the Damish Landsthing indi.
cated a determination on the part of the
majority to postpone ratification of the
sale of the Danish West Indies to the
United States until after a plebiscite
of the islands has been taken.
The semi-annual conference of the
Board of Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church was begun in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
Capt. Ramon DD. Garcin, an interest.
ing and picturesque character of Rich-
mond, Va. died there at the age of mn
years, :
Charles J. Searcey, the Aquia Creek
train robber, was released from the Vir-
ginia penitentiary.
Speaker Henderson was renmominated
for Congress by the Republicans of the
Third Towa District.
It is reported that R. G. Erwin will be
offered the presidency of the Atlantic
Coast Line as soon as the consolidation
of that sompany and the Plant system
has been effected.
, 8 Detroit
Mrs. Adeline Sage woman,
crazed by the death of her child, poured
kerosene over her clothing and then ig-
nited it. She was burned to death,
J. Pierpont Morgan notified the White
Star Line that he would accept the agree-
ment whereby the White Star Line enters
Workers Smelters
the slipping combine. It was stated that
Mr. Morgan's firm would receive fa.
$000 for organizing and financing the