A PLEA FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE CONGO Address To The President and King Edward. WANT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Memorial Adopted at the Conference of the Foreign Missions Board of the United States and Canada Declares That Both Nations Have Recognized This Duty. Philadelphia (Special)- At a meel- ing of the conference of the foreign the United States in this city on Sats mission boards of and Canada held urday it was unanimusly forward to President Roosevelt, United States Senate and King Ed- ward an appeal on behalf of the stricken people of the Congo State. The appeal follows: “To the President and the Senate of the United States and to His Ma- jesty King Edward VIL.: “The Conference the Foreign Mission Boards of the United States and the Dominion of Canada would nestly bring of the State mis- agreed to the of most respectfully and ear to you an on behalf stricken people of the Congo We do this the name of 40 gionary organizations, whose prosecuted all sections of the world, and we are persuaded that the petition inte tg faithfully the sen- timent of their constituency wards of 20,000,000 of Christian men and women. Wi not forgetful that recognition has been given by both to duty in relation to this ple. is appeal in iis in ill are governments unhappy of keen satisfac- tion to us government united in leaders y in a wi affecting rnational the nea |SOoOurce a that 8 art irk closely honor But rence weeks wh cont weight we recogniz that Just been we ar by recur- Of i all nites taken The Evidence Convincing. “We speak with deep concerning intimately dents of the conditions been di to accept that more sacrificing not COoOnvic the scl the need testimony to of selected by said of th sionaries they the characte witn +3 ry these and 1 . OF Las onge of this cern for would sible leave for it a lasting 1 road An International Duty. wonld earnestly urge tl f the sr of the : i wh i renre : : “We device State, whether gion of motive countability p transfer o rritors Oo Aa ment of which he is himself the head shall be a t loud jase of intern | responsibility f immediate ascert tions and correc issue, as of motive, but of fact, of guardians} indin of protection the territory the Congo pendent of political over, conviction that tee hq cept by the convening conference was opening the wonld review of the issn is indispensable dealing now.” rile 0 ii ale les evasion n of ac- romotion of govern- the ationa Wrongs aware, d the the You ¥ f an ¢ : E of neople pi of jasin rejiations +11 tinal King is a his sanction we would 1 if transfer Os Ded ly the cannot trust international of an important Congo ter: that a conference in of tory, it for in all its phases wise and just seem A Liliputian Killed, Atlantie City, N. J. (Special) Richard Donan, a midget well known in theatrical circles was asphyxiated by illuminating gas here. He was found sitting in chair beside a heater from which the gas escaped. Donan was 42 years old and a trifle over three feet tall. He was one of the original Liliputians and had trav. eled all over the world. a Turks Destroy Bulgarian Band, Saloniki (By Cable) .—At Tchair- ly, near Monastir, Turkish troops de- stroved a Bulgarian band, consisting of eight men, killing six of them and capturing two, both of whom were geverely wounded. The Turks lost two men killed and several wounded. Honor For Brander Matthews, New York (8Bpeeial).—<It was an- nounced at Columbia University that President Roosevelt had received a letter from the French ambassador at Washington stating that the deco- ration of the Legion of Honor had been conferred upon Prof, Brander Matthews, of Columbia University, in recognition of his services to lit- erature in connection with the study of the French drama. THE NEWS OF THE WEEK Domestic. After mourning each other as dead for more than 14 vears, Rev. John A. Cull, formerly assistant pastor of St. Francis de Sales Church, of Ouak- land, Cal., and his wife were re- united in that city. Michael O'Neil, a Central New England Rallroad conductor, though mortally injured in a wreck near Winsted, Ct., draged himself a mile and sent a message which saved a passenger train, Judge English met by chance in Sheridan. Wvyo., the wife from whom he had been divorced 30 years ago, made love to her and again won her. The Clyde Line freight steamer Onondaga, from Boston for Charles. ton, is ashore upon Orlans Beach, Masachusettg coast. A general corporation hunt has been instituted by the legislature of Nebraska, Kansas and South Dakota. The police of New York have been asked to look out for Frank 8S. Mor- ton, a missing Boston violinist, Pennsylvania Railroad shares fell off 4 points on the announcement of the plan to issue $200,000,000 of new and bonds to complete improvements Miss Sarah voung woman of not believe in medical fused to call a physician just she died A New {$16,000 { Son, { street stock Harding, a wealthy Brooklyn, wno did science, re before M jury to lost a awarded David- by a York has damages child who Car passing William Allen Russell A Senate, Marion Hmb it a over Smith, who Alger in the U sold popcor nited for ceeds State n living The Vermont 11 + once Southern cotton North Carolina and mi : AR Cal rai ne near Hazlet 1 i wires caused Ch: wrecked Ontario was arrested on 1H O00 Iron counsel zr. the jgsu« ielerical Association Prince of Portugal was riding acci Lis Own Russi Are toward in and Germany's attitude An of political or commercial would unite England Jefensge financial budget $250,000,000 ¥ attempt Germany RS and for 1807 extraordi- which Ministry of War of a bomb sgsily Island, a Petersburg, in which «ish families reside i A Philippine Japanese Agsociation i hag been formed to cultivate com- | mercial relations between Japan and {the Philippine Islands A tidal wave devastated several of the Dutch East India Islands, south of Achin, and several hundred lives are reported lost ! General Rennenkampf, the Third Siberian been appointed commander Third Russian Army Corps. The Japanese government decided that, on account of anti-Japanese ag- ftation on the Pacific Coast, the training squadron will not go farther than Honolulu. The separation of church and state in France has caused a number of suits for recovery of money be- queathed as endowments for masses for the dead. Colonial Director Dernberg issued a statement in defenge of Germany's colonial policy. Henri Brisson, former premier of France, was reelected president of the Chamber of Deputies, Negotiations are in progress for consolidating several coal companies in Nova Scotia. Colonel Andrieff, chief of police of Lodz, Poland, was shot and killed in that city. Earthquake shocks were felt in portions of Norway, Bweden and Russia. for expenditures, of ig for the jous explosion many command- Corps, has of the er of HUNDREDS ARE LOST NA TIDAL WAVE A Terrible Disaster in Dutch East Indies. THE ISLANDS SWEPT BY THE SEA. Three Hundred People Perish on the Island of Tana and Forty More Are Swept to Their Death on Simalu The Disaster Supposed to Have Fol- lowed a Volcanic Disturbance, tidal the of great Ac- digpatch on the Island known to have island of Sima The wave Dutch Achin cording Cable). some A of south Hague (BY devastated India loss is has Fast Islands The to a brief 300 persons perished of Tana, while 40 been drowned at Iu. The Dutch East Indies, name given to the Dutch possessions in the Malay archipelago, has an area of | 760,000 square miles and a popula- { tion of about 45,000,000 8 attered lover the numerous islands and partd islands Many of the smaller | fslands of the group are volcanie in i their nature and tidal waves follow- { ing eruptions have frequently | large loss of life. A tidal wave death of the smallest of the { This like i there, followed vol very official are the a : Of Cause swept {about 30.000 to group 18%3 disaster, probable Wi canic VAriou Mauna | WOMAN SHOT BY HUSBAND, Savannah Fashionable Leader gerously Wounded. nah, Ga |necis Roturean yand await Both firs al, but that 1 foaned and wound was ned accident at Roturean was In that she was shot dur her husband and riieell or ¢ ¥ Struggling or pos- | was to her id ‘ f a} i a quarrel with both Ing { while i go were of the pistol Roturean said chided her for staying late sorted bitterly, and then she struck blows with riding sgion Mi husband she out eral a tot according to his wife, whip and lashed her her bosom and shoul ders. She then got a pistol and tried shoot her husband, but he seized and struggled to take the pistol Just as he got the pistol away from her it was discharged and she fell will not say. however, that her husband deliberately shot her The Rotureans are connected with Savannah's old families and have been prominent socially. Mrs. Ro- turean is one of the handsomest women in Savannah. urean, the severely across i snatched to het She Germany's Big Cowony Bill Berlin (By ‘Cable) The Colonial division of the foreign office has pre- pared a table showing that the ex- penditure of Germany on her colo- nies in Africa apd the South Seas total $161.250.000, to which may be added indirect expenditures, in- cluding postal service and steam- ship subsidies, amounting to $7,850, 000. Twenty darned To Death, Strassburg (By Cable). Twenty persons perished in a fire which de- stroyed the bookbinery of Hudert & Co., an English firm, at Gelspol- sheim, near this city. A vat of boil: ing celluloid exploded and the flam- ing liquid caused such instantaneous ignition of everything with which it came In contact that all the exits were cut off in a very short time. Some of those who escaped from the burning rooms were badly scalded. AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. And Bill. Representative Morrell (Rep, Introduced in the House a providing for annual river bor appropriation bills, which be on the game scale as those Army and Navy and other la: propriations, being able the United St with the other nation The River and Harbom bly will reported to the this week Chairman Burton, House Rivers and Harbors Commit tee, originally planned to the hill before the House January 14, and { it has not been announced {that the bill not be reported on that day, but Burton is lined to grant a of to the Illinois members, who are anxious to have the presentation of the bill de- layed until Lorimer, ot lilinois, and participate in’ the dis- cussions of the projects for propriations he Burton and oclateg hol liver Harbor Pa) resolution and har- “shall of the ge ap- ary en to keep pace of the worid.” Bill neces to ates proba- House the be of lay on defi will Mi few nitely ine days grace Representative ! who is il], return committee s can which made d firmly are to his ass i i decision before th oe of th to their have | hearings tee bhecause ession, it 10 any In Federal is announced at that the tO % OD Flaw Law. ne J us ( nment tice | gover { Corporal Knowl who inded Twent: Okl fously wo the no, Congress And The Departments, By a vote of © O.:« the nmittes on the Judie to od trial reports ad a the President APNo invite partic Exposition Department Shanghai relief ¢ 10) vernment to gtown he State $ mtcl the famine from ¥ ommittes recely Mexica 100.000 sufferers Senator Hopkins in defense of Reed Smooth to retain member from Utah Champ Clark, of Missouri, ing urged for leader of House, to succeed John Sharp Williams The House was the scene of a threatened personal ed larg for the address the 4 iis Senate is the encounter be- tween Representative Gaines, of Ten- and Representative Mahon, of Pennsylvania, growing out of Mr. Gaines’ bill to “dock” members for chronic absenteeism The Secretary of War has ordered the court-martial of Corporal Knowles, Twenty-fifth Infantry, charged with having shot Captain Macklin, commander of Company A. The bill making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the government was re- ported to the Senate The Committee on Revision of the Laws reported a joint bill codifying the eriminal law of the United States. The Senate passed the bill limit- ing the hours of railway employees to 16 hours of service followed by 10 hours of rest, Representative Pearre, of Mary- land, has introduced a joint resolu- tion providing for the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. Testimony detrimental to Operator Dutrow, who was on duty at Sliver Springs on the night of the Terra Jotta wreck, was given on the stand at the Inquest by Operator Moore, of Kensington. He declared that Dutrow was incompetent and in- efMcient. Dutrow is kept under sur- velliance by Central Officer detec nessce, tives. THE LICORICE TRUST 15 FOUND GUILTY Indiv.dual Defendants, However, Are Acquitted. GOVERNMENT WINS GREAT VICTORY. Jury Finds That the J. 8. Young Com- pany, of Baltimore, and the Mac- Andrews & Forbes Co. Formed an i Twenty-Four Probably Cremated In Steel Mill ————————— Pittsburg, Pa, (Bpeci: One of GXDIORIONs in & abou the worst the Jones Laughlin + i rred but Not a Conspiracy. New York (Special) The jury with a verdiet of acquittal tof 4 ag against fvidual defendan Howard Jungblu of guilty as and th« the interests & Forbes Young Mac thie namely, Company and Com- pany Two Corpor: 1 form other two con com! inat of being a were ing 1 Counsel for monopols "1 rporations acquitted Charg- congpira Once motion and a t was cl ernment the tion in tobacco men gui against {tl two corporation st the in ige Hongh war- lividual replied that if ti i Ce 80 ranted finding within ing they were ot oa their power by There- such a again retis in the ju Farmer Boy Weds Girl Of Wealth, N. Y. (Epecial) The days of Miss Edith M of Oneonta, poor farm Herbert Cole, acted as her chauffeur through Eu- rope last summer, is the of a pretty ron Miss in April, 1905, to worth dollars, farmland men she in Syracuse to take herself Europe Cupid upon their return quent automobile near Cole Syracuse, marrigae Ago io a who Wilber, 1 heir an several 1undred including 4.000 near Oneonta bought a big ACTER Last sum- touring mother through busy and took fre- as to and became the girl trips so Murder Over A Young Woman. Lexington, Kj fight over a young woman to which both had been paying attentions, Cleveland Justice, 18 years old, shot and killed his cousin, George Mulline, Where McKinley Died. Buffalo, N. Y. (S8pecial).-—The former residence of John G. Mill- barn, on Delaware Avenue, to which the late President McKinley was taken after he was shot at the Pan- American Exposition, and where he dled, was badly damaged by fire this morning. The fire practically consumed everything within the four walls, The loss is estimated at $25,000. The property has been sold recently by Mr. Millburn bo Philip M. Shannan. clined to helley men iter fry or Ng mic ng nen suicide By His Wife's Coffin Philadelphi of 5.000 140% is an expectation will the next roads he the probe Rapid Transit's ahead of $2.600 Compan) the earnings year at das of America 4d regular s« per Baltimore & Ohio directors clared the regular semi-annual divi per cent. on the preferred and 2 per cent. on the stock. last of nearly Electr declared a mis cent de. stock Come Just before the close W, lL. Bull & Co.: “1 should not to see Pennsylvania break The Republic Trust Company. of Philadelphia, has followed the exam ple of several other institutions and increased the interest pald on depos. fits to 3% per cent On small amounts of $100 or less the usual ten day notice need not be given. Janney & Co., who are supposed to represent Important officials of the Cambria Steel Company, were conspicuous, buyers of the stock. Another well-known broker told hie customers: “You can buy all the Cambria Steel you can get up to be surprised have a sharp in the nex! few days.”
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