MAY YET FORCE
FRANCE TO WAR
Germany's Attitude is Causing Much
Anxiety.
THE UNITED STATES IS CAUTIOUS,
Conferences Between Secretary Root and
Freoch and (erman Ambassadors—Wash-
ington Government Not laterfering— Other
Neutra! Powers May Try to Bring Fraoce
and Germany Together.
FAMINE IN NORTHERN JAPAN,
Condition of Sufferers Seid to Be Worse Than
Described.
Seattle, Wash, (Special The steam
sh Pp Dakota brin
kit the f§
ern provinces
ing graver.
second
Vice from Nagasa
E. Lampe, chai
1ittee of relief,
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wer
then me
personally
many
and
0.000
towns
Fukushir
yen. Our first figures
those affected by the
weak to describe
“Able-bodied
are facing the
bring wood
men
I from the mountains in the
hope of earming enough gh its
to keep the strarving families, Women are
covering their babies with their own cloth.
ing to keep them warm, and such condi
tions as these can mean only death in
the end.* Families once proud and com-
fortable are now reduced to want.”
The appeal tells of special instances
of suffering and death.
SA TE
George Small ladicted.
Mount Holly, N. J., (Special) ~The
Burlington County Grand Jury found a
true bill of indictment against George
Small, colored, for the murder of Miss
Florence Allinson at Morestown on Jan-
wary 18 Rufus Johnsop, also colored,
who was arrested in Baltimore and con-
fcssed to murdering Miss Allinson, but
who subsequently charged Small with
the murder is awaiting execution for par.
ticipation in the murder.
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Jritish naval estimates for 1006-7
347.500, being $12,500,000 less than the
estimates for the present financial year
American, British and German gun-
to Nanchang, where the French Jesuit
missionaries were killed
Another setback to the reactionary
policy of Russian Minister of Interior
Durnovo is said to forecast his retire-
ment.
French troops charged a mob trying to
prevent an inventory being taken of the
Church of St. Sauver, at Mazamet.
The illness of both Balfour and Cham.
berlain has caused postponement of the
debate in Parliament on the fiscal bill,
Assassinations, bomb - throwing and
robbery continue in full swing in Po-
land and the Caucasus
King Edword's physician, as was to be
expected, denies the rumors of his ill
health,
Motions for reducing the period of ser-
vice in the French army were defeated.
Fire at Wesleyan.
Roosevelt's Gift to a Church.
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convicted of
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the Student
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Tenn., (Special)
convention of
Volunteer Movement contributed $84.000
secution of missionary work
The meet-
§ were Thursday night
6,000 persons joined in the chorus of the
hymn, “The Son of God Goes Forth to
\ followed by the lord's Prayer,
repeated in concert by thousands of
voices. Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, was the
chief speaker
Nashville,
utes the
crowded
Tee
Paris (By Cable).~According to in-
formation which has reached official quar.
ters here a revolutionary movement
against Venezuela is on foot. The rev-
olutionists are concentrating on the Is-
fand of Trinidad, where they are await-
ing arms and supples, previous to land-
ing on the Venezuelan coast.
A Menace to Peace.
London (By Cable). ~In introducing
the navy estimates in the House of Com-
mons Financial Secretary of the Admir-
ality Robertson commented on the fact
that since The Hague Peace Conference
the naval expenditure of the great pow-
ers had increased 50 per cent, reaching
the enormous total of $507,500,000. He
regarded this inflated expenditure as a
menace to the peace of the world, and
thought that a league peace was desir.
able.
About 400 Small Houses
Plana to Honor Freakin
Ex-Governor Hogg Dead.
ouston
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the residence
paris
health
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dered
physicia and he was planning 3
to Battle Creek, Mich
{ogg reached Houston Friday night and,
took to hig bed.
n was not cons
ns
President Was Sposser.
Washington (Special). William Loeb
3d, the infant son of the Secretary to
the President and Mrs. Loeb, was chris
tened Saturday afternoon at the resi
dence of Rt. Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee,
Bishop of Washington he Fresident
and Mrs. Roosevelt acted as sponsors for
the child, who was born on December 26
last. Bishop Satterlee conducted the
ceremony of christening
FINANCIAL,
Rumors are again current that Union
Pacific will distribute a big extra divi
dend
Harriman’s friends brand as untrue
the assertion that he is trying to wreck
the Illinois Central preparatory to buying
it for the Union Pacific.
Northern Central directors were re.
elected at the annual meeting of share-
holders. It had been expected that the
committee appointed several years ago
to see what could be done toward leas-
ing the Northern Central and the Pent.
i also to recommend that the
dividend rate be increased, would make
a report, but nothing was said about it
at the session.
In seven months of this fiscal year
Baltimore & Ohio's gross earnings in-
creased $5,480,000 and the net profits
gained $2,381,000. Nearly half the net
increase came in January,
ON THE CRUST
OF A VOLCANO
Eruption in China Likely at Any
Moment,
HASTENING
That
WARSHIPS
Deslte the Fact
Kefers to the
It Is Believed All
Are In Danger—The
of Viceroys.
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Foreigners
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PRINCE EITEL A HAPPY GROOM.
Wedding
Capital,
Royal in the German
¢
va
¢ chapel dome, bu
hundreds of candies,
delicate costumes or us
bout 500 persons belonging to
milies of Germany or the princi
sility, the cabinet ministers and )
ber of generals and admirals. Ambasss
dor Tower an
the diplomatic
tenant
Lieu
Howard
circle, were
Commander William L
the naval attache, Mrs
Howard: Capt. Wm. S. Biddle,
military attache, and } Biddle ;
Secretary Nelson haughnessy
Mrs. O'Shaughnessy
tary John W. Garret
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in as
Third
Second Secre
Led 300 Agalost 3000,
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Cincinnati, (Special) .~Major Jo-
Kennedy, aged 72 years, died at
his home near Middletown, O
seph M
He was
on General Fremont's staff in the Civil
War, and distinguished himself by gal.
lant conduct in the famous charge at
Springfield, Mo. He suffered wounds in
this charge that left him an invalid. In
this charge 300 Union men charged 3,000
Confederates. Kennedy was promoted
from leutenant to major that night for
bravery.
Flight of Chinese.
Shanghai (By Cable) ~The Nanchang
magistrate, the: injury to whom was the
reputed immediate cause of the attack
by natives on Catholics and Protestant
missionaries a few days ago, is still alive,
though his wounds are dangerous. The
native population of Nanchang is fleeing,
dreading the arrival of armed forces
from European and American gunboats
There have been many arrests. The of.
ficials of Nanchang are urgently asking
the viceroy of the Province of Kiangsi
to come pergonally to Nanchang.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS,
Plaas For | vesion.
New Vepezucelan Charge.
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For Many Moouments,
Rails Cost More Here,
liing price of steel rails abroad
} ne
Ross
ted States was
David W
Isthmian Canal
examined
ommittee on Interoce
He showed that he had pur
American mills rails for use on th
ws at from $1.30 to $2.50 a ton
an the prevailing price i
this country,
was
President Cone
gress appropriate 0 defray
the expenses of delegates of the
United States to the Pan-American Con-
gress in Rio de Janeiro next spring.
Secretary Shaw appeared before the
House committee in advocacy of the law
requiring the licensing of custom-house
brokers,
» 1 1
Roosevelt has asked
to ¢ S100.000
th
il
The Army Appropriation Bill, car
rying more than $60.000000, was passed
by the House, after five days of consid.
eration.
Major Gillette has given up his com-
mission in the Army to become supers
intendant of the Philadelphia filteration
plant,
The House passed the Foraker bill
providing for the marking of Confeder-
ate graves in the North.
The House committee favorably re-
ported the bill to abolish the grade of
lieutenant general,
Secretary Thompson, of the Lafay-
ette Memorial Commission, reports that
the Lafayette monument in Paris will
be dedicated on the anniversa-y of the
surrender of Yorktown,