“THE RAILROADS HALT ON IMPROVEMENTS Said To Be The Result of Adverse Legislation. LEGISLATION IN PENNSYLVANIA. Pennsy to Stop Contemplated Tm. provements Estimated to Cost $25, - 000,000 — Work On the New York Terminals to Be Continued — The Two-cent Fare Bill. Philadelphia, Pa. (Special). — In, view of the fact that the legislature of Pennsylvania is about to make fit unlawful railroad charge more than two cents per mile for pas- senger traffic in this state, and is also about to place a tax on anthracite and bituminous coal, the Pennsyl- vania Ratilroad, it is understood, is about to follow the example of other railroads and order several improve- ments now under way to be stopped. The cost of these improvements and others in contemplation, which have been and are to be cancelled, approxi- mate $25,000,000. The work in New York is not likely to be halted. In a statement just issued the Pennsylvania Railroad prepared the way for an announcement as to the holding up of improvements. This statement, which was issued on its face as a plan against the enactment of the two-cent per mile law, in for a to de- penditure whicen the will have make as the result of higher prices for material and the increase in wages of its employes. It is well known that the rallroad company has given up all hope of blocking the passage of the two- cent bill, which has been by the House of to state It Is, not difficult fathom the meaning of the statement In his annual report to the holders of the Pennsylvania Railroad pany President James problems before that it the part of t its capital mum, avoid therefore, about a McRea week ago, told of the be a would “wise company policy to red to a undertakings ne expenditures new I ent such way to work as he v st ¥ ¢ ” and must be completed. was ON VERGE OF UPRISING. Seditionary Societies Are Fomenting A Revolt, Washington Shanghai (Special). - advices ruling dy alarmed ove of famine the ary cause ment. The s as capital, it assuagin given assistar the abi has on of sympathy poor cls The dicat organ of st and officials may get such shou danger t not be ahle American and other nasty opportu 5( wocieties ity to re magnifi peol id hat 0a 13 to control eata ther great and con been advis hd and every t1 WO i be joo ilar officials in ructed to keep rd o ti in rega he rn taken SANDERSON ACQUITTED. A Parallel To The Thaw Missouri, Mo. Arthur Sanderson was acquitted of the der of Dr. D. A Carthage on January 5 1 Mrs, Sanderson testified Meredith, the family ph made love to her when his office to oonsult h detalled her experiences tor to Sanderson, who left the house and soon returned with Dr. Meredith Before Mrs. Sander- gon, the husband accused the phy- gician of ruining his home and shot and killed the doctor. In the arguments of counsel for the defense, a parallel with the Thaw case wag drawn. Attorney Shannon said there was evidence of an exag- gerated ego, in that the defendant thought himself “providentially ecall- ed on to avenge the ravishment of Lis wife.” Case Carthage, (Special). Solomon that yeician, had she went She had with the doc- im Big Blaze At Pottsville, Pottsville Pa. (Special) .— Fire of unknown origin destroyed the brow- ery of the Union Brewing Company and the tenement houses of Thomas Wigmore, Willlam Jones, George Reedge and W. K. Shiasler, at Miners- ville, entailing a loss of $100,000, The fire threatened to destroy the town and assistance was sent from this city. The loss is partly covered by insurance. A A HA II Harrison Getg 20 Years. Richmond, Va, (8pecial).—Joshua Harrison was, Thursday, at Elizabeth City, N. J., sentenced to twenly years’ imprisonment for the kidnapping and murder of Kenneth Beasley, two years ago. A stay of exeqution was denied. Tho boy wae a son of State Senator Béasley, A bromse tablet sasnmemorating the birth of Grover Cleveland was unvelled in the room whiolt he was born a8 Galdwell 4. J. SA CAE SU? IA— Domestic. Mrs. Frankie Taylor, who claimed to be promoting a big mining deal in West Virginia, was arrested in New York on the charge of beating the Hotel Lincoln out of a board bill, After waiting at the church door in Nyack, N. Y., for the bride-elect, Otto Froelich, the expectant bride- groom, received a message that the young lady had changed her mind. Ex-Judge Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation, said in New York that if managers of corpora- tions were honest there would be no public hostility to them. A special train filled with students on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad was wrecked at Clare- mont, Col., and 6 persons killed and 17 injured. Count Constantine Pole of royal birth, was shot and killed by J. C. Hines, a miner from Nome, Alaska, Hines claiming the Count had robbed him of his wife. Train wreckers ditched the Chicago and New York Limited on the Penn- sylvania Railroad near Pittsburg. Former United States Senator Bur- ton has completed his six months’ sentence in an Ohlo jail. Ten thousand dollars have been bequeathed to Princeton to establish two scholarships. Miss Rose L. Fritz broke the type- writing record by writing 2,445 words 30 minutes, Podporski, a in cutting trolley car in two in De- troit, Fifty-f New winter, Fire in the Pensacola Yard caused a loss of The gold-and-silver early Philadelphia, Washington Baltimore Railroad Webster, which teriously, has ofice of President Ti Alton Fish, an the Whart f Finance of the Universit V declared that down during 3 went sland Coast { Fla.) Navy $175,000. model of and 10¢ on disappeared returned iton, Road in mys- to of the been Chicago and Stuyvesant address students of on ¥ of | President r (Ris sylvania Roosevelt was for the flurry i a institu~ afte aft ing $12,000 in slot machines. Burglars sul Y educational Ir a poor-house aluable L ummer home New York mer- owing threats of 1 I to Nebraska om a Pacific Coast ship- battleship , wife of Fairmont, reports that $ 1 * 4 1olutecs, Bonilla yourne, igh nisai a speech rliament the the employment cease at net at the opening TT tw 0 1 ¢ 1 FAREVAAL caion) of of The German gunboat gone to Port au Prince, Hayti, to support the demands of the German of certain German subject. Hundreds of the Roumanian army to the colors took part in the riot- and plundering in Moldavian towns. . It is proposed to insert a clause in the new French income tax bill imposing an additional one per cent, tax upon bachelors and spinsters. The British steamer Fernley has been beached near Hakodate, Japan, having sustained extensive damage from striking a floating mine. Testimony has been given that the Reactionary League in Russia hired men to murder Ivan Petrunkeviteh, the Liberal leader. The height of the Assuan Dam in the Nile is to be raised 80 as to as gnre the irrigation of another sec- tion of Northern Egypt. The British Premier announced the government's decision against the project of tunneling the English Channel. The Pope hag consented to act as godfather to the expected child of the Queen of Spain. A serious congestion of trans-At- lantic freight has redulted at Ham- burg from the longshoremen's troubles. Tribesmen fighting with the troops of the Sultan of Moroeeo have been defeated by the Ben Ismala tribes- men under the leadership of the brig- and Vallente. Kxcavations made at Metafontine, in Southern Italy, disclosed a number of interesting Greek tomby. The Nicaraguan minister denies that President Zelaya has authorized ‘hiefsaldiers to loot eaptured towns. PEOPLE KILLED Roumanian Troops Shoot the Riotous Peasants. 100,000 JEWS ARE NOW HOMELESS. Terrible Uprising of Peasants in Molda- via Against the Farmer's Trust— Because Some of the Landlords Are Jews the Mobs Attack All of That Faith-—Troops Charge the Mobs. Vienna (By Cable). —The serious- of the situation in Northern Moldavia growing out of the agrasian disorders has not, according the telegraphic reports reaching here from Czernewltz, on the border, been exaggerated. From the estimates of the damages made it appears that 400 farms In Moldavia have been devastated, 8,000 fugitives have fled over the Rouman- fan frontier into Austria, and a total of 10,000 Jews are homeless, The number of dead and wounded cannot be given accurately, but the latest reports give a total of about 85 men killed and in the neighbor- hood of 150 wounded The outbreak seems to have been partially suppressed in the district of Botosahni, but the latest reports are that the movement {8s spreading i Wallachia and into the Austrian crown land of Bo- kowina : ness to latest int into Ps the Practica the f fel wis ¢ of Moldavia has been oops into afflicted dis- $ riet 11 entire involved. Against Farming Trust, The movement is rian are in than antisemitic revolt against trust, which 1} land ae in Mol who oe Jews, ire and all this atable the and this peasants Jews that antipathy is feeling i Bare Haj of the down they 1dded rong racial from ial On Causes Michalleni fact that there was a ber of Roun town to stop the ri at first got 141 3Oidioers 3 This and = the peasants The FU COOSR of the dera rioters 3 1 kill Town Plundered. fil Ll WAS attack of Ja uth ymen. the peasants fire uction compli serious injuries Heaps of Ruins, It frontier i of Bukowina cared for whare ag well as Locomotive Cincinnati, Oblo Explodes, {Bpecial) —With Hamilton and Dayton yards, at Eighth Street, near Burns, exploded, proably fatally injuring George Mor- gan, engineer; Walter Griffiths, fire- is broken valve have families. sald to have been a The injured men all Admiral Tilley Dead. Philadelphia (Special) .-—Rear Ad- miral Benjamin F. Tilley, command- ant at League Island Navy Yard, died after a brief illness of double pneu- monia. Admiral Tilley was made commandant at the navy yard on February 23, having been assigned to succeed Admiral Craig, who was retired. Leopold Was Stricken. Brussels (By Cable). — Notwith- standing the official denials, private inquiries confirm the report that King Leopold, who is visiting the Riviera, had a cerebral attack a fow days since, after which he was unconsciong for some time. It is now announced that he will come home much earlier than expected. Elizabeth City, N. C. (Special) .— Joshua Harrison, who was conylcted of the kidnapping and murder of Ken. neth Beasley, a son of Btate Senator Beasley, two yoars ago, was sen- tenced to 20 years’ imprisonment af ter motion in arrest of judgment had heen denied. Notice of appeal was given and 60 days were allowed in. which to bring the case before the Supreme Court, Harrison being ad- mitted to ball iy $3,000. A —— - AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. President Roosevelt has signed orders for sweeping changes in the government of the Canal Zone, which will become effective April 15, and are expected to effect an annual sav- ing to the United States of about $100,000, President Roosevelt announced his disapproval of the findings of acquit- tal in the case of Capt. L. M. Koeh- ler, Fourth Cavalry, U, 8. A, who was charged with using disrespect- ful language toward General Wood. L. C. Cummings, of Boston, had conference with Secretary Straus, of the Department of Commerce and Labor, in the interest of movement for government of licensed steamers. Bureau of issued by the of the Department Monograph of Statistics the world's of tures. The Francis Association has been chartered purchase and preserve the house in Washington where the lived. exporters irigadier General of Artillery, to consider matters relating to coast defenses, The Postoffics an order debarring Harsha Co-op Company from the use The Department issued fH. H. Harsha and rative Advertising of the been 38 mails, has ef- accordin to from the I at C Chinese boycott suppressed, advices received . ul al Cone gene The War Department al from th Lieut B Luiz Arenas De Lima hag bee etary to the Portu- by court rtial on (ro Mr. guese Legatic Mr. Is view with latter did to rellave ann case iMcuities htain gave the full deta which attended patents to Twenty-nis hours Steps Ve General certain i The Pre grams from fins +3 tions ne iF up of an m1 he no (i 3 ¢ ub AERTregn 3 1 or sending to C The census repo shows ( the New Yo Hartford Raliroa with the Presi ioad of provisi at once for the reifkf KILLED BY EXPLOSION. Occurs In The Mixing House Of Powder Mill, *a. (8pecial).—An explo- Dubols, der Mill, Emporium, death located two miles west of Pa., which caused tH® of six men--three Americans Moran, all of Emporium, and three unknown Italian laborers. The cause of the explosion has not been ascertained. The explosion occurred in the mix- ing-house. There were 1,000 pounds of dynamite in the building, and the gix men who lost their lives were engaged in making dynamite by nvix- ing nitroglycerine and wood pulp. The town of Emporfum was shaken until windows fell in, and the jar was felt as far as St. Mary's and Driftwood, 20 mileg distant, When the men employed about other parts of the plant had recover- ed from the shock they were unable to find a vestige of tna mixing-house, the six men who were at work there or any of their implements. There was nothing at the site of the build- ing but a great hole in the earth 12 feet deep. Not a scrap of the bhuflding nor a thread of clothing or particle of the bodies of the men has been found. The loss to property was about $7,000. Mrs. Sage Gives $150,000. Now York (8pecial) ~~Announce- ment of a gift of $150,000 by Mrs. Russell Sage to ald in the erection of the new sailors’ Home and institute was made at a luncheon given by the trustees of the American Seamen's rend Soclety. The bullding will be erected at Wost and Jane Stroots, this efty. Mrs. Sage also made a gift of $76,000 to the Syrian Protestant Cok lego, of Pelrut, Srrie UNITED STATES FORCES ARE LANDED Our Marines Are Guarding Honduran Ports. MANY KILLED AND WOUNDED. As Tender of Good Offices Has Not Been Heeded by Belligerents, It Has Order Cessation of Hostilities. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS. | landed 0 Ppro- United Btates at three Honduran tect American interests. Both the Atlantic and eoasts of warring Central can states now covered by States gunboats. This precaution will prevent international complications grow- ing out of the United Stats pol- fey not to European onstrations walters by Mexic now marines porte Pacific Ameri- United permit dem- in tl Joint intervent and United garded by diplomats as Nicaraguans claim feated the ed Honduras and Salvador lasting three and t Nicaraguan advices of dead durans and THe ion the States probabl hav forces to com in ba days wo nigh gay } dreds wounded vadoreans and marines th # irom Lie os $4 Marietta h American wa The Coast. 1 ot American or & t Patrolling From the meager d ¢ tha t mima force of Marietta at ets at Ceiba cou to Puaort iT He i the dispate?) Ds wn gon t fare hi voasels Ww and leave lestation, capture of the he Nicaraguan Navy The Nero has Truiillo by Commander F it may serve fo landing parties expressed the view, the 3 ofore the on been left ullam that as a base for the small The it commander that in ir said, Both Coasts Covered. Both coasts of tral American republics are complete- ly covered by American gunboats. In additioh to the Marietta on the Honduras Caribbean coast, which is the Paducah is further south on the Nicaraguan coast. On the Coast side are the Princeton, which is patrolling the Nicaraguan coast, and the Chicago, which ls patrolling the Salvadorean and Honduran consta, Joint intervention by Mexico and threatens to involve all Centril America ia now regarded as probabls by diplomatists. Tenders of goed offices on the part of the two great governments have not been hegded by Nicaragua, Honduras and Salva- dor, and {t has been suggested to the State Department that Mexico and the United States should send pleni- potentiadkes to the warring counties to Investigate the canses of the pres ent war apd order an immediate cossation of hostilities. Unearths Pot of Gold. Sorgeant, Ky. (Bpecial).—After a search extending over twenty years, Mary Jane Mullins, 60 years old, un- earthed a pot containing $6000 In gold and silwer coin, in an abandon- od lot on the farm of her father, Bing Osbora, near hore. Her father died twenty yoars ago Meaving $10. 000 buried upon the farm. Bhe will continue the search for the remaining In the fluid ave some rare ARN id ‘miuabie, coina MAY END IN PROTECTORATE Picture of the Condition iv Cuba. Dark Washi regime offices diplomatic made England, Fran iat they for GAMAZES their That he then country struction of and That the situatfon United Bt: i to announce over Cuba. Such is the tenor received ‘ ) they rmation I EHEC possession Subtreasury Was Robbed. ret Service, said had learned notl disappearance of new ing the mong Terrorists Still Warsaw (By Cable the apparentcaim in this city thereha Active, ) In spite ol been no decrease in terrorist activity During the past daye thre: stationg on the Vistula Railroad have 1 attacked and robbed and several policemen killed Brigandage fs ot the increase and it is unsafe to trave on the highways or to live in country houses, especially near the city The authorities seem unable to cope with situation. IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. three American Locomotive declared its regular dividends in both classes of stock. C. 1. Hudson says the short inter est in the market amounts to 1,000. 000 shares and he predicts a great bear panic within ten days. Edward B. Smith & Company have pald for Philadelphia & Erie $65 a ghare. It may be that this firm is acquiring as much of the untraged 2 per cent. of the stock as possible with a view of turning it over to the Pennsylvania Erie's inability to go shead with needed improvements, for the very- simple regson that Kt cannot raise the necessary $20,000,000, caused heavy liquidation of that stock, A Wall Street rumor is that when HM. C. Friek last year sold such a great bloek of Reading, he barrowed the shares for delivery, not deliver ing his own in order not to let the brokers know from whom it was eom- , It ls also said, that the big ly in prices just beforp the papic was due to his eovering of this heavy shot eontraet,
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