FRANCE IS GIVEN sured, courteously Treated by Venezuela's Presi deat, Expected in Washington. Spe vinced of th rece: alty that ent 633 EMPLOYES BENEFITED. Carnegie Relief Fund Report Shows $266,290.15 Disbursed. MAY WANT THIRD TERM. Jucob A. Riis, President's Friend, Makes Sig» pificant Statement. Feat Expands a Rail, With ¢ fegrees Saturday Lous (Special) ture of 72 the warmest January in St. Louis, five men were 1) te femoving a hea expanded the Terminal Association had expanded on ac weather and suddenly all five men. Both legs of the were broken and one leg each others were frac day ey Fey in striking foreman of MIL OF the wa flew up, two tured Robert N. Stephens Dead. Philadelphia (Special)—Word was re- ceived here of the death of Be urnwouth, Eng., of Robert Neilson Stephens, of this city. Stephens wrote many short stories for magazines and became a theatrical agent and dramatist in New York in 1593, writing plays, notably the Steve Brodie melodrama, “On the Bowery.” Later he wrote “An Enemy to the King,” which was produced by E. H. Sothern, and “The Ragged Regiment,” produced at the Herald Square Theatre, New York, DOMESTIC At a conference of representati the ' insurance of tates mnve yeu aepartments and t Armstrong ttee in New York am begun for unif states the Imi msurance ia ALAS WW, to sign with Tibetan treaty, and na contin Brita to cert lifese sovereignty ver that « A new n St. Petersburg ers of one council 1s formed i Russian troops have had several i vere conflicts with the revolutionists | Caucasia and both sides have suffered heavy losses. uniry. workmen's As was ele ounci ”%¥ tpt sist ape arresic moines ie in Six Jews, members of the Warsaw anarchists’ commitiee, were executed. M, Taigny, French charge d'affaires at Caracas, having gone on board the French Line steamer Martinique at La Guira without legal permission, the Ven. exuelan authorities have prohibited his landing again in Venezuela, All the seven districts of Birmingham, England, were carried by Joseph Cham- berlain and his followers. The commission appointed by the Finnish Senate to prepare a project for the reform of the Diet agreed to elec tion by universal suffrage. LUKE WRIGHT'S GREAT MISSION His Work As First Ambassador To Japan, JAPAN IS AFTER THE ISLANDS. High Authority on Foreign Affairs of Govern. ment Says Roosevelt Is Sendlog Repre- sentative to Mikado's Court Japanese on Proposition to Islands to Oriental Government. to Seund Dispose of DOWIE HAS BEEN DEPOSED. Former Head of Zion City Said te Squandered Fortune, } eo Arew “tha sep i Grew. of 1 ica 3 ‘4 y New York and th } WEre expensive : United After Sixty Years. igo { Soe + 1 gi wi id ' 1) eB 4 5 & % : i r h bro whom he years, Dr. James on has been united with the of hi e1 her, E mbers left hi ! when s old. Since 184% the brothers had made constant but vain efforts to find eal The end of their long sepa- ration was brought about by their re- markable likeness 1 other Port Royal ia Flames. Altoona, Pa., (Special).~The town of Port Royal, Juniata County, on the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad, was threatened with destruction by fire Five houses and one store were de- stroyed. The flames gained such head- way that the local fire department was unable to control them, and Mifflintown was asked to send assistance. Port Roy- al has about Boo inhabitants. It has one bank, three churches and several small stores. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. Progress Made (no Transportation. United Stat leads the in the present growth " ‘ » Ke (xx Congress of Mothers. Statehood Hearing Stormy. House May Save Frigate. re a senate committee and educa Presid statesmen in a petibbon bring about “the « an powers to secure ection for the Armenians and in the Ottoman Empire.” were made by Mint Secretary Roo the for ¢ deportation from t of a number of striking Cuban cigarmakers Senator Tillman offered his resolution : for the investigation of pead € representations ster to £4 EEL Senate Morris mcident, and it was laid on table by a vote of 54 to 8 The House passed a resolution ask ing the Naval Affairs Commitee to as certain the annual cost of properly car ing for the frigate Constitution, The Urgent Deficiency bill as report ed to the House provides that the eight- hour law shall not apply to the canal foree, . The House passed the bill providing for the final disposition of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, The Keep Commission submitted its report cfiticising the value of certain parts of the Agricultural Department Crop reports. Secretary Taft, president of the Amer. ican National Red Cross Society, sub- mitted a report to Congress on the affairs of that organization for 1908, HOLOCAUST IN A FARMHOUSE Burned. | FAMILY'S FATHER i Chicago Mililonaire Passes Away io New York. Belonlog to the Ayers’ Family in Mew Hampshire Father of the Family Is Sus. pecied-. tie Shoots Himsel! When Told of the Fire. $2,500 FOR HEROINE. Award Yet Made From Carnegie Hero Fund. Biggest ! cimny Lear Appeal to Clergymen. York (Special). —T Union No. 6 appealed to the Episcopal Chuich in to overrule the management of ook Concern, which mounced yesterday, has do electrotyping and stereotyping for printing shops employing non-uomon men The Union requested a mecting of i clergymen and the striking employees of | the Methodist Book Concern, New Pypographical ergymen Methodist hodist 3 decided Sh Torpedo Boats For Russians, New York (Special) Lewis Nixon. who has completed the building of 10 tor. pedo boats at a port on the Black Sea for the Russian government, arrived from Europe on the Kaiser Wilhelm 11 He said he had finished all his contracts with the Russian government, and ex- pected to make no new onces until condi. tiong are quieter in Russia, Mr. Nixon said he was in St. Petersburg for four months, and intends to return there. The revolution in that city, he said, did not afford as much excitement as a gen- eral election in New York, WAR CLOUD LGOMS UP. Fraoce Expeis President Castro's Vesezucisn Charge. few days ister. Mi between Franc 2 ceased to exist Taigny wae not expelled at the represenfative of France, but sz a simple French citizen Meanwhile, a telegram from L'Orient. the French war port in Brittany, an. that Jean Ban nd Casscloup-Lanbet are preparing to join the French division cruising in the of Venerzuclan waters, FINANCIAL DOINGS. the cruisers WOUNCes 1! viciity C. C. Mingesheimer, of New York, has ecome a member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. It is said by the Philadelphia News Burean that the Electric Company of America is earning over 11 per cent, ob its capital stock. The advance of almost 41% per cent in Reading and 534 per cent. in Lehigh Valley was caused by speculation on the ¥ a theory that there wall be no strike and that both stocks will be raised to a ¢ per cent, dividend basis next Summer;
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