CASTRO RESIGNS POWER
President of Venezuela Springs a New
Surprise.
SENDS A MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.
lo the Ordinary Course of Events President
Castro's Term Would Have Ended February
20, 1908 -He was Elected President of
Venezuela in February, Last Year, For Six
Years, Beginning February 20.
Caracas, Venezuela ( By Cable). —Presi-
dent Castro has resigned.
He placed his resignation in the hands
of the President of the Congress after
reading the Presidential message. Gen-
eral Castro handed over the exercise of
the Presidential office to that official.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—Secre-
tary Hay received a dispatch from W.
W. Russell, the United States charge
d'affairs at Caracas, confirming the report
of President C resignation, but
stating that he doubted if the Venezuelan
Congress would accept it.
From an authoritative quarter
learned that this move on the
President Castro has long been
plated. Representation:
him several ago
Venezuela that resignation Ww
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part of
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bv leaders
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THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER,
Domestic.
As a result of a battle between union
and non-union structural ironworkers
employed on a bridge in Cleveland
three men were badly cut and bruised
by being struck with bricks and clubs.
Twenty-five ‘men took part in the fight,
and only quit upon the arrival of the
police.
Suit has been brought by the de-
scendants of the original proprietors of
Ellis Island, in New York
claim the island through royal
given their ancestors. They aver that
the island is part of New Jersey.
Five men of the crew of the
Pilot were drowned in the Delaware
near Philadelphia as the result of a
collision with the steamship Winifred
Mrs. Albert A. Phares, Jackson
ville, N.
the grand jury on the charge of poi
soning her husband.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, addressed a let
tug
¢
Oo!
demanding protection for two
1izers, who have been threatened
death.
I'he attorney general at Manila de
cides there is not sufficient evidence to
justify the President
Gomez and the Na-
party, charged
adrones
organ
with
ection ol
leaders of
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tronalist With assis
the |
It
President
been learned that
Palma, of Cuba, wa
New York to Mi:
daughter of a
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arried in
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gives uj
formed !
it within tl
make his
he would
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which h
ent ident Castro
rt time ar
ext ele
WITH SAVAGE CATS
Maan Finally Kills Them After
His Face and Hands Terribly.
New York (Special
rett, of Bloomfield
the cellar
and after cle
the cats « ]
kill
He saw thr
mg at him
cats were bitin ET |
ret raised hi
at « he
the
land
other
ory
them
ne s
le
could
on his
drew i
the fz
threw
Of
hid
clot
LA SOUFRIERE VIOLENT.
Loud Roaring and Flashes Accompany
of Cloud of Smoke,
Spread
wn By
La
past Ra
Kingst
tion of
1alf
unabafed and
mspiring
The crater is
black clouds wh
accompanied by
flashes which ren:
smoke which
island in darkness
Electrical discharges
tervals during the ni X
break the sunlight playin
pertdous volcanic clou
ceedingly beautiiul
Relying upon the s it opinion
that Kingstown, althot overed with |
heavy clouds which completely obscure |
the sun, is not in danger, the popula- |
tion shows no alarm. According to ad-
vices from Chateau Belair dark sand is
falling there, and Point-a-Pitre reports
that strong detonations were heard
there throughout the night and morn.
Ing.
1
now
The Hague Proto:ol
Washington, D. C
believed here that Great Britain, Ger-
many and Italy have agreed as to the
amendments to be proposed to the draft
of The Hague protocol, and since the
British Ambassador has received his
instructions as to the exchanges to be
proposed, it is thought that instruc-
tions to Baron Sternberg and the Ital-
ian Ambassador may be received here
us wha by the middle of the week.
(Special). —It is
ust what amendments the British Am-
assador has been directed to propose
1s not stated, and the character may
not be made public until negotiations
are again taken up with Mr. Bowen.
A ————— -
Ask Pardon for Motorman Madden.
Pittsfield, Mass. (Special).—~A peti-
tion for the pardon of Euclid Madden,
motorman of the Pittsfield Street Rail-
way, who is serving a six months’ sen-
tence in the House of Correction for
the death of William Craig, secret ser-
vice officer to the President, will come
before the Berkshire County Commis-
sioners April 7. It is considered prob-
able that the petition will be granted.
The fine of $500 is to be paid by the
railway company, upon whose tracks
the fatal accident occurred,
wovernor Hunt and
14 on mal
Id an informal
between
latter |
being
to
'
present hi
pl p res
dapie
Paris,
triumphs and down!
auction for $64,400
etn
lermi
sland
rant
resembling
Trinidad is
there
of
cal men
‘ ncken-pox
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain stat
ed in the House of Commons that
ooo Boers had been repatriated, ane
that the British government
ing the new colonies military com
pensation $75.000,000 toward the ex-
penses of their resettlement.
Samuel Untermeyer, of New York
organizing a combination in Eng
Germany, Austria, Russia
100,
wa Ri
as
is
land,
and waterworks,
There was a clash between the Cath:
olics and Protestants the Fiji 1
lands as the result
of a number of Catholics to Protestant.
Ism
of $
nessed by many Americans. An Amer
ican cakewalk by Southern
was a feature of the procession,
France was inaugurated at Marseilles
with much ceremony, the Cuban flag
being saluted and cheered,
The Austrian War Minister has for-
bidden ali officers to join the Anti
dueling League.
The anniversary of the death of Louis
Kossuth at Budapest was the occasion
for riotous demonstrations by the atu-
dents, who hoisted mourning flags over
the university and compelled the pro-
fessors to suspend lectures.
Financial
New York Central directors have de-
clared the regular quarterly dividend of
1 1-4 per cent
J. P. Morgan and William Rockefel-
fer attended the New Haven Railroad's
labor conference.
If Keene wins his fight against Har-
riman in Southern Pacific it may in-
duce minority interests in other rail
roads to follow suit,
Rumor again names W, P. Snyder,
of the Clairton Steel Company, as the
future cent of the nited States
Steel Corporation.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—The re
port of the Anthracite Coal Strike Com
investigate the differences between
anthracite region, just made public, oc
March 18,
and 1s
of the
Briefly stated, the report recom
1603,
members
signed by the
commission
mends :
average of 10 per cent.
2. A shding scale of w
mum wage rate
3. That person shall be discrimi-
nated against the matter of employ-
ment by membership or non-
membership in any labor organization
4. Decrease of time of
That the laws
» mines be more rigidly enforced.
ages and a
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reason of
res
That the
awards of the c
operative
MOMISS
remanm
The Sliding Scale.
eof w
I
unt the
when an &
i
ded, and so
I hese average prices shall |
monthly by an accountant or co
er. named bv one of the circu
Third circuit of the
States, and paid by the coal
compensation the
the judicial
operators,
such as
judge may fix,
distributed ng the
the tonnage of each mine
As to the Union.
person shall
in any
account
am operators it
be refused em
way
on it of membership or
non-membership in any labor organiza-
tion, and that there shall be no discrimi
nation agamnst or interference with any
That
-
no
The following general recommenda
“The commission thinks that the
ployers, instead of throwing the whole
responsibility of preserving peace and
protecting property upon the county
and State officers, is one of doubtiul
wadom, and perhaps tends to invite
conflicts between such officers and idle
men, rather than to avert them, Peace
and order should be maintained at any
cost, and should be maintained by reg-
ularly appointed and responsible offi-
cers and deputies, at the expense of the
i
nay be necessary by public authorities,
than by guards hired by cor
deputies are, to all intents and pur-
which they are engaged
preserving peace and protecting prop
erty
Coal and Iron Police.
“The employment of what are known
as 'Coal and Iron policemen’ by the
sity as things are, militates the
very purpose
against
which they are em
Although the testimony
the commission proved that a whole,
the Coal and Iron policemen were men
of good character
number
to discredit
body. 1
body of ji
, but they
for
Del
there were a s
taken
efforts
characters,
the
he employment ol
of bad
Cite
whole
police
are really the employes of
antes not
«chien € 10
and thus do
and
law entitled
are
nt. ar
1d many
- } *
Coal region
1 rites would
Employment of Children.
inc neerning 3
offered
children
MYSTERY OF BAR OF GOLD.
An lngot Valued at $23,500 Has
From Unioa Depot Office.
Disappearcd
eastbound
10.50 O « Jew k.
nto the depo
we eastbound
hey were removed
the strong-box and loaded on a
to wheeled out the ex
The train was an hour and
a half late. however, and it is under
stood by the police that the gold was
put into the safe again pending
he time for the train to leave, but lay
be
v
io
nell says that he has found that at least
nine persons were in the office at dif
ferent times while the gold lay on the
truck exposed to view and that several
of them handled it and commented on
ite value. Two men who were in the
office were taken into custody, but
proved to the satisfaction of the offi
cers that they had nothing to do with
the disappearance of the gold.
When the train was finally ready it
was found that there were only three
ingots on the truck. A frantic search
of the office was made, but no trace of
the fourth bar was found. The train
was held for a time, but finally the three
ingots were dispatched on their way
and Foreman Miller notified the po-
lice of their disappearance. It was at
first thought that the bar might have
been left by mistake in the express car
of train No. 4, and the car was search
ed at Buffalo, but there was no gold
bar found.
Packers Fined $5)00 Each.
Jefferson City, Mo. (Special) ~The
Armour, Cudahy, Swift, Hammond and
Schwartzschild & Sulzberger Packing
Companies, the five defendants in the
ouster proceedings brought by the At-
torney General of Missouri against the
alleged beef combine last summer, were
fined $5000 each in the Missouri Supreme
Court and ordered to pay the costs of
the case, which amounts to $5000. Un-
less the fines and costs are paid within
P days, the defendants will be ousted
rom +he State, 50 the court orders
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
A man giving the name of John Ben-
nett gave himself up to the sheriff at
Fremont, Neb., declaring he was the
murderer of Nora Fuller, a girl killed
in San Francisco a year ago.
George Willard, who is wanted by
the police of France as well as a num-
ber of American cities for daring rob.
beries, was arrested, after a oh fight,
on a Chicago steeet car.
Rear Admiral Crowninshield lowered
his flag and gave up the command of
the European Souvadron.
WITH THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS,
February Breaks Record.
The February figures of the
of Statistics just made public, show
largest exports of any February
history of United States commerce, and
also that the exports for the
months ended with February were larg
er than those of the corresponding pe
riod of any earlier year
On the import side
a continuation of the
has characterized
and the figures
ended with February
the figures sl
growth wi
the last two
{ the eight
sUREest
months
that
0
yea
the export figure
to exceed $1,400,000,000.
seem
£12.000,000 in €x
ng the three mo
the
’ 1801, I
figures, the Bureau of Stati
bulletin says, are due in part to the
that the new corn «rop is rapidly en
ing the markets of the world, to whic
the United States was i
slight i last
against $215,151.471 in
able to make
Year
February
3 O00 bushel agains
000,000 bushe
y
:
over 1
Cotton exports alse
year
gain over those of last
cotton exported 11
$37.423.317,
ary of la
year
February
against $24. 768.7602 un
£1 54
VEar
Ex-Confederate Pensions.
Interior Departmen
Appropriations for Canal
i
the extr
in the Departments
WEN receive
r
VINE Cup as a
le
{ of Venezuel:
Hel to req
i oir rin - 1
5 1 Arkansas and
retary of War Root ordered that tents
be immediately sent to the fi
response ucsts of the Gos
i ennessee, Sex
:
oded dis
Braun, of New York.
been appointed immigration inspector,
to go abroad and investigate immigra
tion conditions
An agreement been
the allies upon amendments to the
posed draft of The Hague protocol
Count and Countess de Castellane
called on President Roosevelt at the
White House
It was discovered that there
several conflicting and apparently im
possible conditions in the Cuban Rect
{
has reached by
:
nro
pr
by the Senate which may kill it
Civil Service Commissioner Foulke
him by senators for writing letters to
correct inaccuracies in statements bear.
ing upon the action of the department
The President appointed Dr. W. D
Crum collector of the port at Charles.
ton, S. C, and W. M. Byrne United
States district attorney for Delaware.
A court-martial was ordered to try
George H. Edds, chief commissary
steward at Newport, R. 1, on the
charge of securing commissions ot
purchases of provisions,
The United States Senate ratified the
Cuban Reciprocity Treaty after the
amendments agreed to by the Foreign
Affairs Committee had adopted.
Col. Peter O. Hains will be pro-
moted to the rank of brigadier general
when General Wade becomes a major
general.
The Seligmans, affiliated with the
3peyers, have offered to assume the
enezuelan debt,
widge Gray, chairman, and Carroll D.
right, recorder of the Strike Commis.
sion, have presented the rt of the
commission 10 Fresident Roron
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TWO BOATS CRASH IN FOG
Big Steamer Pl{mouth Run Inte in the
Sound By City of Taunton,
Side— Members of the Crew Drowned in
Their Bunks ia the Hold— Passengers’ Cabin
Splintered, and Many Have Narrow Escapes
~Both Craft in Badly Disabled Shape.
New London, Conn. (Special).—In a
Long lsland sound,
big
Ply
the
of
Fall-River
waters
passenger steamer
which left in the afternoon for
Fall River with 500 passengers and a
was run down while
Race by the
of Taunton of the
Of 200 men,
passing through the
steamer City
also from New York Five
one passenger and prob
were killed
ol the SLarbDGarc
MARRIED SEVEN TIMES
Man's
Matrimony.
Michigan Yaried Experience Jo
He aeolian
at large
gen-
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Carter, 21638
n, asistant adjutant gen-
Had Premonition of Death.
City. Pa
former bi
Jolin
rough supervisor
:
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Mahanoy {Special}. —
Price, a
called on several friends here and ask.
he had a premonition of death
Although he scemed to be in hic psual
when he made the strange re
he fell dead apoplexy two
quest, of
of his home.
Bill Falled to Pass.
Harrisburg, Pa. (Special) In the
House the bill presented by Mr
Blumle, of Cameron county, and which
had previously passed second reading--
“to subsidize large families and pro-
vide for gold medals for mothers of
large famibes” failed on final passage
by a vote of 6% to 55, less than a con
stitutional majority.
eh A A ANA SA
Lost $200; Hanged Himsell,
York, Pa. (Special). ~~Hamilton Hin-
kle, of DoVer, seven miles from York,
committed suicide by hang: He was
suffering from aberration of the min
caused by the sale of his house severs
days ago. Hinkle offered his dwell
for sale, and Samuel Wallick bargained
with him for Soon aft rd
another purchaser appeared and offered
him $. Hinkle tried to get Wallick
to release him, but without success. The
loss of the $200 jo preved upon his mind
Hint he went to is rm and hanged hime