POWERS AGREE AS TO MOROCCO Great Conferezce Fnds With Peace Assured. AND FRANCE COMES OUT AHEAD. Ambassador White, the American Delegate, Says the Settlement Is Satisfactory to Both France and Germany Important Changes ln Euro- pean Politics Developed by the Conference Triple Alliance Virtually Ended. POLITICAL EFFEA ‘rance a many in the wim great game She secures a free four Atlantic ports ot for five years She gets thr Morocco State other nation’ Reco ation | and Germany indefinitely shares Bank to three tween France de chief esents With reference conference were reserved admitted, | real re the good w and his adh last act authorize pro adopted | uhmitied to the Chevalier Malmusi, to Morocco, who is 3 matic corps at Tangier, with the tion that it is t} ) powers that it be put into operation im mediately ron rept conference will reform ptaian srs dink dean of intima i the unanimous wish of Dewle is Ousted. Chicago (Special) —At a meeting of 5.000 adherents of the Christian Catholi Church at Zion City, of which John Alexander Dowie is the founder and first ~ and William Glenn Voliva, who sometime has been conducting the affairs of the church, elected in his stead. Mrs Dowie also repudiated her husband and their son, Clarence Dowie, cast his lot with his mother and the new Voliva leader, Klited By Half-Brother, Baxley, Ga., (Special) —Reports have just reached here of the killing of J. G Sapp, by his half-brother, John Miles, a well-known turpentine operator, about four miles from this place, Sapp and Miles had some ‘trouble about renting a house. They met and became involved in a dispute over the matter. It is said Sanp drew his knife and started toward Miles, whereupon Miles struck him with a fence rail, inflicting fatal injuries. Both have wives and large families. Desperate Holdup Osng. Scranton, Pa, (Special) ~One of the boldest holdups and robberies in this county took place when seven men blew up the safe and wrecked the building at the Dickson City postoffice, securing $200 worth of stamps and a small amount of money. Just as they were about to enter the building three men came along and were held up by the robbers and com- pelled to witness the robbery. A man coming upstairs, looking out of the win- dow was told to keep quiet or they would blow his head off, [LATESTNEWS INSHORTORDER + being perpetrated in tl ph A New York Regiment, and the National Bank of A of New York, has cor to stealing $34,000 of the Captain Jose Twenty-second 39 years with merica bank Roosevelt, acc he sn, arrived at Fernandina, Fla, and \ \ for mpanied by a Jerome dee ntributions of n M 1 la di praties 1K i i ludes Georgia W is illega and ( CH, sma & and ripts ruined e, wanted in R y, was { nesier ing a Blackwells ind act as in the : j8¢ Island Wast York at of Venezuela i } New at his home, In a FOREIGM Driven to canmbalism by starval of Yukahir tribe, the Peninsula, at the extremity of Asta, have been eating the bodies of their own children or others of their families who died starvation, Others killed iy he on Ol suicide Violet Tewesbury, mitted Mrs who was ar- with her husband, Lewis G. bury, charged with passing worth less checks, and thereupon jumped her bail and fled for France, was extradited from Paris. The British government has surren- dered to the Labor party on the Trades Dispute Bill, which provides complete immunity for trades-unions funds, Prince Paul Dolgonoukoff, of Moscow, is to be tried on the charge of inciting the peasantry to riot and of fostering a revolutionary movement, Premier Witte has submitted his resig- nation to the Czar, his piea being ill health. His successor will likely be Privy Councilor Kohovsoff. gether The Russian authorities continue ex- tensive preparations to meet an uprising. The St. Petersburg police force has been increased 100 officers and 1,300 men, The leaders of the regicides in Servia will shortly be placed on the retired list to enable the government to resume dip- jomatic relations with Great Britain, Retiring Ambassador Storer declines to discuss reports that Mr. Storer's rumored action in church matters had anything to do with his recall, A preponderance of peasants was elected to the provincial congress from Kostroma, European Russia, ESCAPE FROM A BLACK TONB lerrible Experience of a Number of French Miner. OTHERS ARE ALIVE IN THE PIT. indignation Among the Familes of the Lost Miners at the Failure to Search the Col- lleries More Thoroughly—For Days the Survivors Never Closed Their Eyes an! Lived Upon Horsemeat and Hay. ho wert ‘onirrieres 20 day mine al rground una Shot His Wife and Daughter. sreensburg, Pa, (Spe While fake himself ¢ wife's ed three shots into her | i ounded in endeavor Colonel Conper's Sudden Death Col Ind, a retired officer, was found dead in Forty- Street. Apparently he died from Colonel Chicago, (Special) Freeman onnor, of Valparaiso, disease Connor and his attended a wedding When guests were preparing to leave Colonel Connor mentioned that he was not feel ing well, and that he would order a car- riage. Thinking the fresh air mght ben efit him, he decided to walk to the livery stable, and was seen again alive, Colonel Connor was 70 years old. not Gorman No Better, Washington, D. C. (Special)—Friends of Senator Gorman, of Maryland, are concerned over his present illness, al- though the statement is made that the Senator is not dangerously ill. Mr. Gor- man has not been in the Senate for six weeks, and for the better part of that time he has been confined to his bed. Last week his condition gave rise to some alarm. The chief cause of concern on the part of Senator Gorman's family and friends is that his condition shows no improvement, PACTS WORTH REMEMBERING Paris dancing masters are lamenting the decline pf French elegance in the art, They assert that the French are losing their old habits of politeness, and as a dancing nation are declining. An English company has been formed to furnish a new soap which makes laun- dry work with salt water possible. Now ocean steamships will not have to carry from $0,000 to 100,000 pieces of bed and table linen to last during the entire voy- age. Washing can be done aboard, LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. Changes ia lomizration Bil. Dhili i The Betsy Ross House. Io 4 Confirmed By the Seoalc, cutive and Ju Appropriation Bill & $ 0,000 000 t ATTYVIn 1e bill to permit Chinese students, enter this and travelers was the subject of a hearing t wse Committee on Foreign Af- | 3 chants ry y | the Hc Arguments were made before the In terstate Commerce Commission on the charges brought by Mr. Hearst against the coal-carrying roads i The President submitted to the House | the report of Assistant Secretary of State | Peirce making serious charges against Wade and Consul Williams, During the consideration of the Five Civilized Tribes’ Bill in the House the railroads were accused of trying to get control of the coal lands in the Indian Territory. Consideration of a bill to give protec- tion to the originators of horticultural products under the trade-mark laws was given by the House Committee on Pat- ents President Roosevelt has given to the War Department Museum a piece of log from General Grant's cabin near St Louis. The President has decided to reappoint Henry B. F. MacFarland one of the commissioners of the District of Colum- bia. The House agreed to the conference asked for on the bill to define and pun- ish hazing at Annapolis. Secretary Taft was before the Senate committee explaining the items of the Army Appropriation Bill, Secretary Charles J. Bonaparte has de- cided to accept the resignation of Mid- shipman Meriweather, The refusal of the House Ways and Means Committee to take up tariff re- vision was the subject of a colloquy in the House between Messrs. Williams and Payne. A committee of bankers was before the House Committee on ree to urge legislation to make bills of lading more secure as negotiable instruments, ANOTHER TACK JEROME TAKES Jury. mittee Both Houses of ihe Have Now Passed the Bill HIS HEART HAD SLIPPED Ususua! Experience of 8 Huegariss Who Died of Plegrisy. Killed Both Women Texas (Spe and shot the ousy prompted were a well county Officers mon Fatality at the Capitol, Washington, D. C Mary C. Wallace, of injured in the public elevator ate wing of the Capit by to leave the car while it was in nd she died shortly re 6 o'c M. She was caught between the Senate floor and the top of the car and crushed about the breast. An ambulance conveyed her to the Casualty Hospital, meantime she was treated by Gallinger, The Casteliane Divorce. Paris, (By Cable). — The adjourned hearing of the Castellane divorce pro ceedings set for March 31 has been post poned until April 28, owing to the ab- sence of the Countess Anna at Biarritz, and to the fact that Count Boni is en- gaged in an electoral campaign, The de. lay is really due to the desire of the parties to determine on the future bus. iness and domestic phases of the case be. fore the court proceeds with the final hearing. ( Special Mrs Denver, in the Se: Yop f lock P but in the Senator aA Suicide of a Guseer's Mate. New York (Special).—John Thomp- son, a gunner’s mate who had served 23 years in the United States Navy, was found dead from a self-inflicted bullet wound in the head in the rifle range at the navy yard, Brooklyn. An examina- tion of the body by a surgeon from the Naval Hospital showed that Thompson had probably been dead for about 24 hours. The range had been closed over Sunday, and ompson had probably there on Sunday morning to kill himself. QUEEN OF BATTLESHIPS, The New Jersey Maintains Her Floe Speed Record. MILLION DESTITUTE Complete Crop Fellures Throughou! Severs Provisces. Thirty-Two Horses Cremated 2.000. 00 of was clected pr Delaware & 3 Virgina Will Keep Mines Open. anion, Pa. { Spex {f one of th tatement that, intended They did not do that closed return has approached its them to act as coal Soetipanies Tey ] up I = ted for ? I Company ask 1 miners 0 i mac and ro 168 A isis fo n pole Standard Oll Abendens Fight, Richmond, Va, (Special) ~The long- drawn-out fight between the Standard Oil and the American Can Companies and the State Corporation Commission against the payment of the tax of $so3, respectively, imposed by the commission {or the privilege of doing business in Vir. ginia, came to a summary end, when both concerns abandoned the fight and sub mitted checks for the amounts, Crossed the Baltic in a Balloon. Copenhagen (By Cable) ~Two Ger man soldiers landed from a balloon on Sunday at Karlskrona. They left Berlin on Saturday and crossed the Baltic in a fierce snowstorm. As they were near ing the Swedish Coast the storm caused a rent in the balloon, permitting the gas 10 escape. The balloon began to descend and the men were obli 10 cut away the basket, throw out its contents and cling to the net. It was two hours bes fore they landed exhausted.
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