THEFT OF A MULE
PROVOKED THE WAR
Funny Beginning of Central Ameri-
can Fuss.
NATIONS BECAME VERY MULISH.
Honduras and Nicaragua Having Be-
come Imbued With the Distinguish.
ing Trait of the Stolen Animal,
Concluded to Fight It Out-—A Ques-
tion of Citizenship.
(Special) .—One mule
~—a mule belonging to Senor Ireneo
Salgado the chief object in
dispute between Nicaragua and Hon-
duras when they began
which finally ended in
is threatening the peace of all Cen-
tral America, according to official
communications exchanged by the
ministers of foreign affairs for the
two republics, copies of which have
been received in Washington.
The controversy began when Senor
Augusto CC. Coello, the Honduran
minister of foreign affairs, wrote a
note to Senor Jose D. Gamez, the Ni-
caraguan minister for foreign affairs,
on January protesting against
the theft of a mule from Ireneo Bal-
gado by 85 Nicaraguan cavalrymen
who were charged with entering Hon-
duran territory.
In reply, Senor Gamez said
Nicamaguans did not quite enter Hon-
duras, although they passed near to
the little town of Los Manos, in that
republic. The taking of the mule
was not denied, but Senor Gamez
insisted in his letter that Balgado
was not a Hondurgn citizen,
Nicaraguan who had to leave
Washington
was
the quarrel
the war that
26,
that
& a revolution two years
onsequently Nicaragua maintained
that Honduras had no right to
to the defense of Salgado’s mule.
This note brought a spirited
foreign affairs, announcing that
neo Salgado, the Nicaraguan
gee, was living in Tegucigalpa,
pily engaged in trade
a man by name, a
ble and a Hondu-
ran of un hi 1
at Los Manos
mooted mule.
Nicaragua r
that Col. Jus
manded a
took a
relterat«
taken
patche
vers
tions Ire
tribunal A
break came
of Nicaragua
of the 1
betwe
Ire-
refu-
hap-
there, while
the
quest}
evolution In Venezuela.
Curacao (By Cable)
leader.
IMPRISONED ON ROCK.
Harrowing Experience Of A
Yorker On Island Cliff.
Los Aageles, Cal. (8pecial).—Im-
prisoned for ts and two nights
rock
unable to
boati
on a ns
on Catalin:
communi
parties almos this
voice, E. 1.. 8B « B
Ardsley-on-the-Hudson,
rescued by fishermen
Descending a steep cliff “to bathe |
at the mouth of an unfrequented can-
Yon, Sand found unable
retrace his steps because of
erumbling character the
cliff.
During
ties were
row led oe f crumbling
wo
sound of
tourist
NY.
nis
from
was
himself to!
of
tho
wait
almost constantly in sight,
ed and he remained unrescued.
almost collapsed after his rescue.
SHOT HIS FRIEND,
Double Tragedy Results From Slight
Provocation,
Birmingham, Ala. (Special).—As
the result of a shooting affray nat
Wylam, near this city, J. B. Brown
is dying and W. M. Stinson, of Ens-
ley, Is critically wounded. Brown
shot Stinson, hat it {8 not known
whether Brown's wounds were in-
flicted by himself or by Btinson.
Stinson and E. R. Britton, of
Greensboro, Ala., who hafl been at
Brown's house, are said to have be-
come offended at a request of Mrs.
Brown, and went away. Later they
decided to return and apologize.
Britton started to leavé when he
heard shooting in the kitchen. Brown
had evidently shot Stinson and then
tried to kill himself.
Stinson and Brown
friends for years.
had been
Another Naval Disaster.
Paris (By Cable). — The French
torpedo-boat No. 262 and the de-
stroyer Epe, while maneuvering with-
out lights near Ajaccio, ran into each
other.
Two men were kllled and one was
fatally injured. e sorpedo boat
was beached. The Epe was able to
re-enter the harbor.
Glass Plant Burned.
New Martinsville, W. Va. (Special),
~The plant of the New Martinsville
Glass Company and several adjoin-
ing buildings were destroyed by fire,
the loss being place at $125,000. On
account of the flood the firemen were
handicapped and for several hours a
large section of the city was ‘threat-
ened. Dynamite was used to prevent
the blaze from communicating to the
adjacent property. The cause of the
fire 1s unknown, but it is bedieved
unslacked lHme in the glags works
absorbed water and developed heat.
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic.
traffic managers of Western
met in Chicago and considered
the safety question of lengthening
the time of express trains,
decrease the number of accidents.
After three days of argument, the
government won its fight over the
routing of oil in its suit against the
Standard Oil on charges of rebating
in the State of Ohio.
The Oliver Iron and Steel Works
and 25 business houses and dwellings
were destroyed by fire in Pittsburg.
No clue has been found to the
$173,000 missing from the Chicago
Subtreasury.
Floods have caused
damage in Western Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Eastern Ohio
The lower portions of Pittsburg and
Wheeling are flooded. Twenty or
more fatalities have resulted. Sixty
dwellings in Majorsville, W. Va.
were swept away.
The jury which heard the charges
of rebating belween the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western Rail
and the Sugar Trust were unable to
agree and were dis rged
Edward Johnson, a lifesaver, was
drowned in rescuing part of the crew
of the British tramp steamer Gowan
burn, ashore off Long Island.
John Alexander Dowie, in a white
robe, was conveyed to his grave
a white hearse drawn by
horses.
The
lines
#0 as to
considerable
oldest citizen of Lebanon, Pa.
seriously injured in the crowd
of John Alexander Dowie, at
City, in the hope of being cured
their ailments by touching the
of Dowle's shrou
State Highway
Crosby, of Maryland,
of
Engineer W,
addressed
session In
Pittsburg on
H. G the
Farmers’
of
3.
McDowell, president
Bank, of Canton,
Tv
ing instantly.
planation of
J
)
no nots
William .
prefer regulation by
trol by the state, a:
ilroads
Congress
Congress is far-
ther from the people than the legis-
latures
Miss
crapher,
Gertrude Har
ish, aged 20, a
committ
sulcide by
ing from
an offi
Speaker
the Porto
red it
ol
& brother of Cu
was sleeping
Frank Rockfeller
tockfeller,
potentates or
owadal
nt Failrbas
reg
Vice P :
Vice Presid
+111 teal
will rain
drowned
Twenty-two Greeks
the cap:
Sacramento Riv
A mi i
s
- tia} a Aaat
te abolish the death
were
by sizing the
¢ % a $ ty
DE Of ORL in
Ive on
Foreign.
ng of the old hall
alace, Bt Peters!
ower house of parliament
meets, collapsed While there
rumors of a plot, it appears to have
The ceil
Tanrida I
io
"nr
ii
were
Captain Rodie, of the
Hungarian army, declares that Japan
is feverishly rushing work on her
The
body of M. Petkoff, the pre-
Bulgaria, March 11,
buried in the public cemetery
was
of Edinburgh grounded in the har-
br of Dover, but was gotten off
without damaga.
The Duteh troops captured an im-
portant rebel stronghold on the Is-
land of Celebes, Dutch East Indies,
Edouard Toudouze,
painter of mythological subjects and
landscapes, died In Paris
The Sultan of Turkey received the
American ambassador, Mr. Leishman,
in private audience.
The semiofficial Tempe newspaper
of Paris says that if the question of
limitation of armaments is discussed
at the coming peace conference in-
ternational relations will become
worse than before.
In a conflict between police and
strikers in Belgrade, Bervia, five
strikers were killed and 20 wounded,
Lord Curzon, ex-viceroy of Indig,
was elected chancellor of Oxford
University, defeating Lord Rosebery.
The Grand Duke Michael, brother
of the Czar, has given $100,000 for
the relief of famine sufferers.
The Honduran revolutionists de-
feated President EPmilio’s forces, ac-
cording to Nd@araguan reports.
Robbers bound ahd decapitated
the proprietor, five laborers and a
woman of a Russian estate,
Mrs. B. N. Castle, an early mis-
slonary in the Hawallan Islands, is
dead at the age of 950,
An inventory of the late Shah's
jewels puts their value at $50,000,
000.
In a disastrous train wreck Dr.
Adam Jamieson, ex-minister of public
lands, and 11 others, all of them
prominent Bouth Africans, were kill-
ed and 11 others Injured In a wreck
on the Delagoa Line.
Five executigns dally are sald to
have occurred in Russia as the result
of drumhead courts martial.
Lord Beawchamp Nevill was ar-
rested in London on the charge of se-
curing diamonds by a trick.
A decisive engagement between the
Honduran and Nicaraguan forceg is
sald to be imminent.
THEY WILL NOT GO
10 THE WHITE HOUSE
The Railroad Presidents Have So
Decided.
MANAGERS NOT IN PERFECT ACCORD.
McCrea, Mellen, Hughitt and Newman,
It Is Said, Do Not Feel They Could As-
sume the Position of a Self-constituted
Commission to Present the Views of
Hundreds of Railroad Companies.
RAILROADS AND MARKET.
While hundreds of brokers
were cheering at the close of the
trading on the New York Ex-
change over the end of the panic,
the four railroad presidents whom
Mr. Morgan had asked President
Roosevelt to meet wert in
New York.
finally ided
to Washington, the
that all the railroad LEers
the country are not in perfect
cord and they « not
sus of opinion on
suggest to the President
The result of rally
market shows that the 20
rafiroad stocks which
declined Wednesday and Thurs
day made a net gain of $6.30 a
share, almost half total loss
of the two preceding days
Thomas F. Ryan helped to
the gituation He {8 said to ha
bought $4,000,000 worth of s
curities when the lowest leve
The endurance displayed br
the New York brokerage houses
during the panic is sald to have
been unprecedented
H. Harriman denied rumors
control of Union Pacific had
passed from luring the vio
Gu
lent slump.
COn~
ference in
to
reason
in
arf
They deg not £0
for
mang
ould gecure
A conse what to
in the
leading
go sharply
the
the
ave
ve
Be
at
him
New York (Special) Met
Crea, Mellen, Hughitt and
oad
the
Mc-
Newman,
iTS
presidents for
whose visit to House J
Plerpont Morgan arraz
departure 1
x that
mn was that the fou
volved did
per n
the
si
it that they
tion of a eis
con ssipn to formulate
the views of oh hun-
rallroad gipanies, which
in are ( y millions
shareholders. 1 that
the maiiroal managers of the United
States are not themselves in perfect
accord, that until some method
wild be adopted for secur! a cop
of opinion a visit to the Prdsl-
would be idle At the jpiv-
of the cogferen the sous
presidents left for they homes
From another oft it was learned
that the presidents were utterly un-
able to agree on a statement as to
what position should be taken It
was held by at least one gf them that
invitation to the White Houa«
bad been given to them by President
Roosevelt and that he had said mere
that he would see them if they
they would be put In the posi-
guppHants asking the Pres!-
modify the attitude the
government toward rall
Upon the other hand, if they
to Washington at the invita-
tion of the President they would be
hey recognized
1, and
r gous
a8 no
of
dent to of
the
roads
A ®
want
Thomas J. Ryan, when asked his
opinion about the meeting arranged
Mr. Morgan between the Pregl
roads of the country,
“I believe that
sald
if Mr. Morgan's
business interests, it will do much
good
attitude toward corporations is much
misunderstood by the general public
It Is unfair to assume that it is his
eats of the country. I am, however,
convinced that he purposes to enforce
the laws as he finds them upon the
statute book, and I think the sooner
the business inteYests of the country
conclude to go to work to ald the
lams that confront him every day,
the sooner confidence will be restored
and the business of the country move
on without interruption. 8o far as
general business is concerned. the
only fault to be found with it is that
it {a too active.”
emscsmadii —
MADE ROOSEVELT LAUGH.
Explanation Of Sudden Thunder-clap
By Man In Street Car.
Washington (Bpecial).—Represen-
tative Gardner, of Massachusetts,
told President Roosevelt a story.
“1 was coming down town in a
street car,” sald Mr. Gardner, “when
everyone in the coach was startled
by a clap of thunder. The man next
te me pointed over in the directibn
of the White House and exclaimed’
‘President Roosevelt must have shot
another raliroad president.”
When the President heard the
story he fairly roared with laughtdr.
Entire Train Demolished.
Meadville, Pa. (Special). — The
second section of freight train No.
765, on the Erie Rallroad, was ditched
six mileg east of this place, and En-
gineer R. D. Logan and a brakeman
were killed. Several other tralnmen
were seriously Injured. The train
was composed of two engines and 21
freight cars. It was running at a
fast rate of speed, when the cross
beam on the forward engine droppad
to the track, derailing the train. e
entire train was demolished.
DISASTER IN FRENCH NAVY
France's Finest Battleships
Blown Up.
(By Cable).
disaster occurred
One of
A terrible
The pow der
Toulon
here.
the
up at 1.35, and a
the
Captain
Medi-
70
magazines on board French bat
tleship lena blew
ult
mander
Vertier,
Adigard, com-
of the battleship;
chief of staff of
terranean Squadron, and from
80 binejackets dead,
Admiral and
a re Captain
the
to
Rear
of
from in-
in their
are while
Manceron hundreds
other men are suffering
juries, some of them horrible
extent,
and the
anpalline
appalling
Naval circles are aghast
public is stunned by the
catastrophe, coming so soon after the
of the French
Lutin, in which 16
The entire after
was blown to pleces
the were hurled
submarine boat
met death
of the lena
The bodies of
Of
through
1
loss
men
part
vietim
by a succession of explosions,
stricken
nal fled
vdock for their
from
men
fumped either over
and sustain
who were
uries
Torpedo Starts It,
The prim:
the expe
JERE
81 cau
ge of the accident
n of i
at
a torpedo
is not
kn«
the
ut the
ware se
powder maga
»t on fire, and
exploding,
WHR cons id of
lg in the French Navy.
hada J inderg
and
heen
their con-
practically
red one
me A
mia
coni-
atory to
lena
nepection o ull
having
repar
overhauled pi
the latter
The co; in its
being composed of the
24 others officers and
CW Was
had been -
of
as
for
and contani
smokeless and
well as a number
torpedoes
The
Yy meal o
he axplo
variouk i
the men
with
black pewder,
charges
crew
A
¢ ed
sill
nected
arsi
had
that was |
party bean
Panic Follows Explosion,
Other ahe
into n
flushed
about the
who had
clambered
jumped down, some of
Bock and others to
Many of the who
thined fatal injuries
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told
been
Ove
the
men
Coal operators and
Bouth
tested
merce C
in rates
road:
3 Indiana
yafore th
ymimisaion
or:
i e
A nl v _—
declared b)
A formal
The President ;
of New York, an ]
of Alabama, members of
istrative Board for the Pi
industrial Peace,
that body.
A rumor bas cirenlated
effect that men employed at the
Government Printing Office de-
clare a strike because of the alleged
supplanting of skilled workmen with
apprentices
Secretary Garfield issned an order
to expedite to the utmgpst
the igagnance of patents to 30,000 en-
trymB whose applications have ac-
cumulated General Land Of-
Adm
motion of
thus completing
to
heo
been
may
n the
John Mitehell, president of the
Mineworkers’ Unton, and a dozen cos!
operators complained to the Presi-
dent agaimst the Western railroads
Shipping commissioners’ offices gn
the Atlantic seaboard are to be ex-
amined by a committee designated
by Secretary Straus, of the Depart-
ment of Commerce and Labor.
The apportionment of 600 addi-
tional postoffice clerks at $600 per
annum was announced at the Post.
office Department.
Secretary of the Treasury Cortel-
you has instructed collectors of cus-
tomg at places where it is thought
desirable to deposit thelr receipts
in national banks with a view of
relieving the financial situation.
Senator Warren, chairman of the
committee that is investigating the
Brownsville affair, received a lefter
from Senator Culbersoh contradict-
Ing testimony given by Capt. Kil-
burn, of the Twenty-sixth Infantry.
Official denial was glven to the
report that the President had re-
quested the governors of states In
which railroad legislatioy is pend-
ing to come to Washington to con-
for with Irim.
Secretary Taft refused the applica
tion of the Chicago Banitary Board
for a permit to divert the wages
of Lakp Michigan into the drain-
age oanal through the
River,
The conetitutionality of the Em-
ployers’ Liability Act has been sis-
tained by Judge Trieber, of the
United States District Court of the
Eastern Ristrict of Arkansas.
¢ Ni Department receive
word that the guntoat Princeton |
Acapluce, Mexico, for Corinto, Nida
ragun,
Rowland Qsborne, post quarter
master sergeant, testified in the
Brownsgille investigation that when
the white soldiers were transferred
to make way for negro Woops they
left behind much smmanition lying
‘oose in storehouses and barracks,
Calumet
JPANESE LABORERS
IRE EXCLUDED
Executive Order Issued By The
President.
THE BARGAIN IS CARRIED OUT.
Settlement of the Eastern Question in
California Accomplished -— Japanese
Who Expect to Enter Through Mexi-
co, Canada or Hawali Will Not Pe
Allowed to Come In.
Wasshington, D. C
President Roosevelt |
order directing
or Korean laborers,
skilled, who have
to go
and to
enter
to Mexico,
come therefre
to the
the United
ly the final
ques
continents
blates
chaj
the States
ered that
and Labor
directed to
Te sm lores 4 “
immigratio
such n
enforce gnch
may be nec
eff ant
further
of Commerce
he hereby is
through the Bureau
and Naturalization
and to make ¢
and regulations as
this
(Signed)
“The White
March 14,
Coincident
of
i Asure
rules
CESAryY
order f
“Theodore Roosevelt.
House, Washington,
1807."
with
into
this order the
dismis
filed in San Fra
direction of the Department
Justice which had in view the
testing of the guestion of the treaty
rights of Japanese children to enter
the white schools. This step the Presi-
dent d promised to take when the
school board rescinded {tz original
action barring Japanese children
from the white schools,
guts
Ditched By Spreading Ralls.
Springfield, O., The C
H. &D
which was being detoured
Pennsylvania Road,
12.15 P. M., three miles
Jamestown by the spreading of the
rails Melvin E. Clancy, engineer,
and Clark Griffin, fireman, were kill-
ed and several paseengers injured
The train consisted of
coaches and a baggage car.
Dismissed For Hazing.
Mexico, Ma,
three cadets of the Missouri Military
Academy, many of them
{8pecial) .-
the
at
east of
over
was ditched
from the academy for hazing Cadet
Czane, of Péoria, 111. Czane, 16 vears
old, was seized by his fellow-stu-
dents and thrown into the ley waters
of a lake. He narrowly escaped
drowning.
Burning Building Blew Up.
Pittsburg (Special) ~The four-
story building oh Second Avenue oo
cupied by the Pennsylvania Door
and Bash Company and the Penn-
sylvania Paint aand Glasg Company,
allied concern, was destroyed by fire,
Shortly after the fi was discoyered
there was a loud explosion ian the
cbllar of the building and the rear
part of the front and one side wall
collapsed. Several firemen who
warp working in the front of the
buiMing had narrow escapes.
WASHED THE BRIDGE AWAY
Three of Freight Crew i.
River.
Three
4 bridge
in dan~
bridge
1 an en~
in the
e rapid
{ eck,
West
freight
the
the
Creeks Raging Torrents,
i
he ground
of the fast
wo frringe
ATH QU i
New Canal Commission.
AF
{ the
an Canal
thals
all
wwe will
ihe com-
of an ad-
it was under
jer Mr Shonts
were advisory of-
execntive officials.
on engineering
SOmMe cases ad-
3
As Ci
seven «
airman, it ig probable that
yf the Ca i »
mmisgioners
ficials rather than
They were consulted
problems, and
ministrative policy.
in on
Easy On Captain Stogsdall.
Omaha, Neb. (Spec
»
Greely
al) Gen. A
of
week
approved ti
martial
R. R. Stogsdall and Lieut
Clark, of the Thirteenth
Captain Stogsdall,
1¢ findings
court
tried Capt.
A. L
fantry
which last
In-
who plead-
maned Lieutenant Black, whose of-
fens2 was neglect of duty while officer
of the day, i&r sentenced to be cone
fined to the limite of the for
Gen-
post
i
i
IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD.
London sold
American stocks
45.000
It
shares of
was said that
was for Ameri-
can brokers,
Asked what he
with
thought was the
Reading, Winthrop
“Reading is virtual-
iy cornered.”
In Redmond & Co.'s security list
are three of the new short-term notes
which yield the investor & per cent.
or better.
American Tobacco's net earnings
in 1908 were $26.40¢,000, a gain
of $1,194,000. The company now
has a surplus of $30.550,000.
President Fred T. Chandler, of the
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, sald:
“Many big men have been hurt in
the recent govere decline, and plenty
of them who, a short while ago, were
firmly intrenched on two logs and
even imagined they had ha!f a dozen
legs to walk on are cripples today, and
are wiiiing to trade on much smaller
Ines. This may retard any rapid
improvement.”