NO LONGER PRESIDENT
Miss Clara Barton Resigns as Execu-
tive of Red Cross Society.
WILL NOW PUSH WORK FORWARD. |
The Venerable Head of the (reat Organization |
Resigns Peremptorily, and in a Long Letter
Reviews the History of the Soclety Which |
She Organized and of Which She Was |
First President.
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ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN.
The Carrier Who Foiled It Seriously Beat:n
and Robbed.
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mortally
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ceived a telegram
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order has been promo
ing the mmmigratios
Turks on the
sulted from the fact that a
ber of Levatines have arrived
mtending to go to Panama
Woman Sent Up for Life.
Steubenville, O., Mrs
Johnnie Owens was sentenced to im
risonment in the Ohio penitentiary
or life for the murder of her husband
six months ago. Mr. Owens was found
dead in an attic with a gunshot wound
in his side.
isthmus
Arge num
here
(Special)
Wants to Be Electrocated,
Columbus, ©. Albert,
alias “Dutch” Fisher, under sentence
of electrocution for murder commit. |
ted in Toledo, has made a formal re- |
quest that the date of his execution
be changed from July 7 17, Of
which date three othetrs are to
electrocuted. Fisher refused to per- |
mit his attorneys to take any steps |
to save his life, saying that he coms |
mitted the murder and should be pn
ished. .
(Special),
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NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.
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The « herasy
Crarre it
Arges
Bibl al
School
deb ite
O1 y against thel
Institute and the |
of 1 heology caused af
the Methodist Gen-|
eral Conference, in Los Angeles, Cal. |
Fhe Southern Baptist Convention
opened Nashville, Tenn. ith |
nt La 'y i
cted |
ively at
t
i Ww
nearly 2,000 delegates pre
Viabama, was
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Pagle, of
ird time
rwdust
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Day
Three days of nat
IAave be en pro aimed in Peru in
if the late President Candamo
body arrived at Callao yesterday
The international convention of the
Young Men's Christian Association
of North America began at Buffalo
The furniture store of D. HH, Brand |
& Co.. at Trenton, N. J, was des.
troyed by fire. Loss, $175,000,
The seventy-ninth annual meeting |
of the American Tract Society was
held in N York.
ANEW
Financial,
Bank clearings for
United States fell 13 per
April, 1003
Expuisions
Consolidated
April in the
cent, below
from the New York |
Exchange are fashion.
re
to
Ratiroads are
ducing their expenditures
quite generally
OWI
The Reading will need this year
about 40000 tons of rails. Its in
terest in the Pennsylvania Steel Com.
pany may cnable it to buy at a price
under the $28 schedule. .
WARSHIP LOST BY JAPS.
A Torpedo Boat Blown Up Near Port
Dalny.
Shelled by the Warships
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS,
Report on Cotton Crop.
Fhe Department of il i% 1
C1 ire
nts for i |
acreage and condition |
t \ i
making claborate Arran
fr
Iwo Mountaineers Are Accused of
Millionaire's Murder.
and Cut the Telegraph Lines
and Seven Woundcd,
- Seven
Russians Biew Up Fert Daley.
Fianced
re the ne
Ra
sre being a marriage
him The
wit and
married the
Trying to Prevent a Lynching.
Augusta, Ga. (Special) In order
Court will
to try
Thomas, a negro, for an alleged crim
——
inal assault on a white woman, the
daughter of a prominent farmer. The
negro, it is charged.entered the girl's
room three “night ago, choked her
and committed the crime before the
other immates of the house knew of
her danger. The negro escaped, but
has been trucked and arrested. In the
endeavor to uphold the law, a special
term of the court will be held
try the negro.
of the Columbia County
be called immediately Ben
Japanese Loan Oversubscribed.
London (By Cable). Subscriptions
to the Japanese loan of $30,000,000
closed at 4 P. M. It was estimated
that the loan was oversubscribed 20
times. There was a great rush to
subscribe, and an enormous number
of applications for small amounts,
New York (Special).—Kuhn, Loeb
& Co, the National City Bank and the
National Bank of Commerce announce
that the imperial Japanese govern.
ment 6 per cent. sterling loan has al-
ready begn heavily overgubscribed.
$3
at St. Peters
ROY
the
113 of the Russian
as to what bes of
forty Japanese seamen who were sent
Port Arthur harbor the last
ttiing” expedition of the Japanese
Congressional and Departments,
of Assistant Attorney
who investigated the
New York Postoffice, exonerates
Postmaster Van Cott of any inten
i tional wrongdoing
ernment
ane
ites
“he
in
The report
General Robb,
The Interstate Commerce Comniie- |
| sion decided the case of the Glade
| Coal Company against the Baltimore
and Ohio adversely to the railroad
| company.
The President
gates of the Virginia
i Craton. :
Colonel Symons reported that the
Washington Monument had been |
struck by lightning, but was not
injured.
The old Nipsic, the wooden war- |
ship that survived the Samoan hur |
ricane, was ordered out of commis
S100, i
Capt. Lowell LI. Blake, a forty!
niner, is dead, at the age of yo. i
Charles H. Robb, former assistant |
attorney general of the Postoffice De- |
partment, assumed his duties of as- |
sistant atitorney general of the De-
partment cf Justice. |
The State Department will not make
an official protest td the Russian gov.
ernment against the utterances of M.
Pasloff relative to the Vicksburg
affair,
dele
Asso
received 100
Baptist
Issue Warrants for Ison and Wright
One Bullet Was Found In the Body It Was
a 32-Caliber and Had Entered From
Front Passing Through the Heart.
the
Kitied By Falling Iron
.
ThE ; 4
lance
beaten
Winter Wheat Estimate.
YY,
un, of the Produ
sek EDIE
an estimate based or
p report places the
p i,
at 150.211,000 bushels, as
pared with an mdicated yield
of 425.600.0000 Last ;
actual crop & 300,000,000 bush
the poorer
in the area
nce of a hard
crop «
try Av
in Apri
bushels years
Id wa
attribute
Vie
els Experts
prospeeis (oo a decrease
sown. duce to the infu
winter.
Tourists in Peril
Mont, (Special).
tourists,
A
traveling
have had
Livingston,
party Eastern
through Yellowstone Park,
a narrow escape from being dashed
to death in a chasm along the Golden
(rate road which leads into the park
from Gardiner. The coach was caught
of
instant, during which the pas.
selves and escape, clinging to the
rocks and brush. The coach soon fell
with a crash to the bottom of the
canyon, 700 feet below, killing the
horses and demolishing the vehicle.
Saved From Mob
Sardis, Miss, (Special).-<At Bellea-
tine, a small station southwest of
here, Rufus Bobo has been shot and
killed by negro citizens, who were at-
tempting to arrest him on a charge of
murderin a negro woman. His
brother, Wack Robo, being arrested
on the same charge, was threatened
by a mob of 400 negroes. Sheriff John.
son, of Sardis, hurried 0 the scene
and removed the negro to Sardis for
safekeeping. The sheriff, with three
deputies, practically disarmed the en-
tire mob of negroes.
| DEAD BODY HANGING IN CHURCH.
| Gruesome Sight Met the Congregation of
Emanuel Beptist Church,
| body
pe
Haptist
TURKS MASSACRE ARMENIANS,
Burn Village in Sassoun District and Kill off
Inhabitants,
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AMBUSHED BY MOROS,
By
Two Officers and Fifteen Men Killed
Natives of Mindanao.
FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING
Egyptian cotton 1s used only for
highpriced goods
About one-third of the we ght of
CER nutriment
The Sandwich Islander's
has only twelve letters
Cuba grows nearly one-third of the
world's sugar cane,
2
an 18 sold
aiphabet
| India’s cotton crop last year was
| about $3,000,000 per annum,
i
{ Canada 1* an Indian word, meanin
“collection of huts.”
The to.al trade of
| 2874801 bales of goo pounds each.
In San Juan, Porto Rico, there an
five families for every two dwellings
One in sixteen of the inhabitany
of the United States has a direct inv
terest in the pension disbursements
The bloodiest battle ever fought
with gunpowder was that at Borodp
no, in which $2,000 Russians and 324
000 Frenchmen were killed
The net carnings per mile of the
31,000 miles of raways in European
Russia are just half as moch as those
of American roads
Consumption is four times as fre
quent in families receiving more than
$1,200.
Diphtheria can only be diagnosed
by a bacteriological examination, an
can be absolutely cured by the ad-
ministration of antitoxin early in the
disease,
Abyssinia