THE APRIL SNOWS
WORTH MILLIONS
Beneficial To The Grain Crops In
The Northwest.
SOIL IN GOOD SHAPE FOR CROPS:
While the Fruits That Had Advanced
During the Warm March Weather Are
Damaged by the Freeze, the Loss Is
Offset by the Benefit of the Snowfall
to the Grain.-The Railroad Reports.
Omaha, Neb. (Special). As a
result of the unprecedentedly warm
weather which prevailed during the
greater part of the month of March
gnd the freezing weather and heavy
snowfall of the last few days early
fruits, such as peaches, plums and
cherries, in this region have been
injured, but the general opinion is
that the damage is not as great as
has been reported.
Indeed, many are of the opinion
that while early fruits have been
injured, and in some instances kill-
ed, and possibly some of the latter
varieties have been hurt, the bene-
fits resulting to the grain crops from
the snowstorm more than offset the
damage.
“Our reports
the lines of our
favorable,” said
sistant general
cago, Burlington
road. “The fruit
points along
not un-
G. W. Loomis, as-
manager of the Chi-
and Quincey Ralil-
in the southern
from
road
are
warm weather in March had brought
to an advanced state of development
is reported to have heen pretty bad-
ly damaged, but little or no damage
is reported from points north. The
snow, however, did a vast amount
of good to winter wheat, and has
put the ground in fine condition for
other farm crops.”
Similar reports have been receiv-
ed at the general offices of the Chi-
cago and Northwestern Railway
“The snowfall was worth millions
to the State,” sald C. F. Redington,
clerk to General Manager
of the Northwestern. “Our reports
do not indicate that fruit
much hurt, far can
told.
“Our work has to do with weath«
conditions and not to effect on
crops,” said Forecaster A. L.. Welsh,
of the local Weather Bureau, ‘but
from such reports have in
I do no conditions are :
as they have been represented
fruit has but
lieve, far that
crop has been destroved.
for warm weather in March
ken twice during last month,
average for the
that for the 3
Weather Bureau i
but the record for April, so
been little below
80 as now
their
as come
t believe
been hurt,
it
10x i
from true
very
St. Paul,
cording to
Pacific and
roads there
along these
eral weeks, pa
Rocky Mountains
er Bureau has
heavy nowstorms
Canad Northwe
BnoOwSs
North
pec ted to
Te
no
ers
ETAain
slight
months,
of
Col
temperature
Denver,
drop in
snowstorm, 14 above zero
corded by the Weather Bureau
Denver and Pueblo, and fruit of
kindg in Eastern Colorado, secordin
to reports, was nipped in the
At Grand Junction, the center of the
more important fruit region west of
the Continental Divide, the tempera-
tare fell 30 degrees, and the weath-
er observer there reported Sunday
that the conditon of fruit was grave,
The damage to the fruit in this state,
according to some estimates, may
amount to several million dollars;
nearly all other crops will be greatly
benefitted by the moisture.
(Special)
followed
heir
Kills Direct Vote Bill.
Harrisburg, Pa. (Special). — The
house bill giving of the
State an opportunity to express their
choice for United States Senators at
the uniform primary elections, one
of the most important political bills
before the present legislature, failed
on final passage in the senate, the
vote being 22 to 22 A majority
vote of the was neces-
senate, 26,
sary to pass the bill
the voters
To Reconcile Differences.
Washington (8pecial). — Charge
Brown telegraphed the State Depart-
ment from Amapala, Honduras, that
the representatives of Salvador and
Nicaragua, appointed for the purpose,
began a conference, with the ob-
ject of composing the differences be-
tween those countries that threaten
a renewal of hostilities in Central
America. His dispateh did not indi-
cate the result of the meeting,
Prayers For Rain In Cuba.
Havanna (Bpeecial) Prayers were
offered in all the churches through-
out the island Sunday for rain, which
has not fallen for six months. The
country is patched, many cattle are
dying and forest fires are devastat-
ing various sections,
Lost Child Died.
Tamaqua, Pa. (8pecial)—The body
of John Sobel, aged sir years, who
disappeared from Hauto a week ago,
and who was thought to have been
kidnapped, was found lying beside a
mine breach on the Lansford Moun-
tain, The condition of the child's
body indicates that he had been dead
at least four days, and it is believed
that he wandered away and died of
hunger and exhaustion. It was at
first reported shat he had been en-
ticed away by # strange man.
Domestic.
Benedict Gimbel, the Philadelphia
millionaire who was arrested in New
York and later admitted to ball on
the double charge of improper con-
duct and attempted bribery of a po-
lee officer, tried to kill himself in
a Hoboken hotel.
The Ann Arbor Railroad denles
the right of thé State of Ohio to
regulate the equipment of its rolling
stock, maintaining that only the na-
tional government exercises control
over Interstate commerce,
The administration ticket of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company has
been officially declared elected by
the inspectors of election appointed
for the purpose of counting the votes,
Salvatore Gemorese, an Italian
banker of New York, received an in-
fernal machine by express from an
unknown man who has been demand-
ing $2,000 by mail.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
declared the Muller act, to finance
Chicago municipal ownership of
street car lines, unconstitutional.
The hand windowglass plants of
Pittsburg, employing over 15,000
men, are to close down owing
being overstocked.
The northern part of the Island of
Luzon was shaken by an earthquake
and considerable property was de-
stroved.
Secret agents investi
gating a plot among Hazleton (Pa.)
anarchists to assassinate
Roosevelt,
Evelyn
to
Service are
Thaw says she longs
a rallway
a
pouch en
C. to New
Edward A. Nelson,
confessed stealing
containing $10,000 from a
route from Wilmington, N.
York
Secretary Taft and his party sailed
from Juan for home, accom
panied by Beekman Winthrop, the
retiring governor, and Mrs
throp
The fourth trial in Boston of *
John Sinclair on the charge
ing the death of Annie M.
resulted in his acquittal
The new battleship
into s8ion at
arke
packet
San
of caus-
Kansas was
the
mi
1t "> IT
put comimi
in command.
The Columbus (0.)
a number
nst the members of the
City.
Two hundred additional suits were
instituted in San Francisco against
companies account of
grand jury
of
that
ance on
fire
Bu wantec for
of
com-
a Missouri
at Myrtle
sted
dol-
of
New
undred
tichmond
in
used the
ad a
tua
loss
rated
inaugu
Ie IMISsIng
the Attorney General
of Police
acknowledges
the ole
of Chi
a-
h contributed
Shippyr
100 toward ction
|
|
C1 ruggs shot
by a while escaping
North Carolina Penitentiary
Every Hearst received in
New York mayoralty fight cost
and killed
from
Was
ri
pi
vote the
him
A committee of the National Pub-
Law Conference is considering
resolution asking that the
paign contribution books of the
inspection.
Foreign,
The British government
public a part of the correspondence
between Rear Admiral Davis and
ex-Governor Swettenham, of Jamal
ca, resulting in the resignation of
the latter as governor of Jamaica.
M. Ponomarieff, chief of the gov-
ernment detectives in the
Douma, is threatened with dismissal
becanse he invented the story of a
conspiracy he pretended to have dis-
covered,
The coal miners’ strike in the dis-
trict of Alberta, Manitoba, is becom-
ing serious, and although President
Mitchell has ordered the men back
to work, it is said they will refuse
to obey.
The Reichstag discussed methods
of exterminating the phylloxera from
the vineyards of Germany and the
question of experimenting with
American stocks.
The Emperor of Japan hag joined
in the popular welcome of General
Booth, of the Salvation Army.
A typhoon swept over the Caro-
line Islands on Good Friday and 230
natives perished.
At the annual meeting of the
Cunard Steamship Company in Liver
pool Chairman Watson sald that
overtures made to that company by
its continental competitors for an al-
lance hid not been considered.
Unseasonably cold weather pre-
vails throughout Germany.
The twenty-seventh session of the
Japanese Diet has adjourned after a
crisis which weakened the position
of Marquis SBaloji's cabinet,
Fire in a laundry in Montreal
caused the death of 3 women em-
ployes and the injury of 12 others,
French officials say that no naval
demonstration is intended off Moga
dor, Morocco,
A bill constituting a court of
criminal appeal In eriminal cases
passed its first reading In the British
House of Commons,
i
{
i
i
we tves— REAR J —
OF TWO. NATIONS
The Suffering Millions of Russia
and China.
COUNTLESS NUMBERS ARE DYING.
Dr. Kennard Declares This Is the Worst
Famine Russia Has Ever Known
Twenty Million People Cannot Live
Without Aid to See Another Harvest
Death’s Keign in China.
A GHASTLY RECORD.
RUSSIA-——Twenty
in the Southeastern
facing starvation.
Hundreds of thousands to
whom even the harvests cannot
bring relief,
Young women prostituting
themselves to obtain food.
CHINA-——Three millions actully
gtarving; 10,000,000 more on
verge of starvation,
Five thousand dying
from destitution.
Parents exchanging their chil-
dren be eaten; women and
children eating the bark and
roots of trees and the green
seum of vegetation from ponds.
million people
povinces
daily
fo
L.ondon (By Cable)
the Russian famine district, Dr.
nard, who was sent by the SBoclety ol
to investigate conditions
the peasantry, draws an
the
funds,
ter
to
of
attention
need
calling
immediate he
BAYS:
“This worst famine
fs the
throughout the
cannot
harvest,
has
rmet-
gOV-
distributed
Provinces
another
this figure
people
aid to
may say
gee
that
ernment itself
‘The date of the
the
harvest will vary
and the famine
is spread
times
than
volved
latitude,
gion
{five
more
re
area
th
de are
direet
tha
size of
reos
the
10
This means
from south
will from
0 4 { ney wivied
Black Bread for
at deg
of latitu
that
to nos he
Babes,
be seen
toy the ont
and
to
the
bahies
forced
and
£
The Starving Women.
3 14 them ty
and from
eastern provinces:
ing in of women
-g ’ * ye i
forced to i outitute
food
whom
y > > 14 4
nothing, relie
whole
diffienlt encountered in re-
ving t people made 10
times worse now, owing to the prae-
tically impassable condition of the
country roads; the winter snows are
and volumes
water in cotaracts
hese Are
melting
of
projecting vast
countless
beast can
in the way of travel."
nor
DEATHS DUE TO STORM.
Wind And Hail Do Much
In Jacksonville,
Fla
and hall
at 3.30
Damage
Jacksonville, (Special).
storm
P. M.,
wind
Jacksonville
considerable damage
B. capsized and Captain Sloan was
drowned The driver of a milk wag-
on was killed by a “live” wire.
Glass windows on the west
of buildings were demolished, and
several bulldings were unroofed. A
dozen or more horses, lashed by the
large hallstones, ran away, some of
them crashing into and shattering
plate glass show windows and others
running into the river Dixie Land
Amusement Park suffered several
thousand dollars’ damage.
Some of the hallstones measured
one and a half inches in diameter.
Numerous small craft in the river
were either beached or swamped,
The Wheelmen's Clubhouse was
wrecked.
doing
sides
Urges Asylum For Thaw.
Rome (By Cable).—The Tribuna
has published an interview with A.
Blair Thaw, a half-brother of Harry
K. Thaw, who is spending the win-
ter here with his family. Mr.
Thaw sald he hoped that the lawyers
for the prosecution and the defense
would agree in a request that Harry
Thaw be sent to an asylum,
Michigan Has Two-Cent Fare,
Lansing, Mich. (Special) .——Govér-
nor Warner signed the two-cent fare
biii, which is to go into effect May
1. Upper Peninsular rates are re-
duced from four cents to three cents
and lower Peninsular roads under the
$1200 limit can charge three cents.
Other rates are reduced to two cents,
Springfield, 111. (Special) .—The
House passed the Young anti-cigar-
otte bill making unlawful the selling
of cigarettes or elgarette paper In
Minols.
Given The Cross of The Legion of
Honor.
New York (Special) Andrew Car-
Pittebur of
and father of the peace congress just
had about his
Wednesday a board red ribbon
o'a
negle, g's apostle peace
adjourned, pinned
neck
from which hung the grand cross of
the Legion of Honor This was a
gift of the appreciative Republic of
France,
It was at the dinner which was
given at the Hotel Astor, jointly with
another one at the Waldorf-Astoria
for the entertainment of the dele-
gates and foreign guests at the
peace conference, that the presenta-
tion of the honor was made. Mr.
Carnegie had been sitting in the
little box raised above the head of
the diners in the main ballroom,
calling for speeches from ambassa-
dors and dignitaries by the crook of
a finger The father was in
high feather.
About 10 o'clock Baron de Con-
stant came into the hall with a sup-
pressed alr of having something up
his sleeve. Mr. Ely, the secretary of
the peace cong arose and made
an announcement.
“The Baron d'Estournelle de
stant has come from the
banquet on a mission of importance,”
he said “He hears a message from
peace
of ress,
Con-
over other
emblage,
France to this ass and I
he
to gay.
iaror
has
The
little
speak
CO overed
into
oblong
his
ran
screened
Then
into
to
the
from pocket
around
from
{the v
Baron
speech
ered
meeting
"On
| France
of his
the
deliv-
times before at various
of the Peace Congress
behalf of the of
and as a public testimonial
eateem and gratification
act bullding
| Palace of Peace at The Hague 1 have
the honor the
Cros of the Let
Carnegle,"”
ing
the cross
fronmas-
t me hope that as
President
in the
your
to bestow upon you
Legion of Honor
it m f. Mr
de
from
me attach veel
laron Constant, t)
said
red ribbon which
ndant the
hung pet
ter's
about
neck, “and l«
you are a good American and a good
Englishman yon now an honored
Frenchman an honor-
» world.”
.
ties
1ie¢l
il
le Moroe-
fact
«d the
refrom the bros
it and
‘arnegie
silver
stood
Cross
th
wi
on while
token about
meanwhile
d the
olf
£1
cheer
of the
heard Mr
wel
did for
unt in her ay of need
know
aver bb
has
: nake to aid
what France has
art I know
Honcr means
distinction in
France
humani
done in the irld of
what Legion of
It
every
men of
of
embraces
field
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told
human endeavor.
The Treasury
tiled Mr. Floyd Hughes, collector of
customs at Norfolk, that 12 addition-
al inspectors of customs would be
ied as steamboat Inspectors
The body of George W. Roosevelt,
a cousin of the President, who died
recently in Brussels, will be brought
to this country and interred at Ar-
lington National Cemetery
President Roosevelt gave a recep-
tion to a party of Austro-Hungari-
ang who are making a tour of the
United States looking
into the coal industry,
Mrs. Donald Mclean and the en-
tire administration ticket was over-
whelmingly elected by the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution.
Governor Hagerman, of New Mex-
fco, has resigned by request, and the
President hag appointed Capt. George
Curry, now governor of Samar Prov-
ince, Philippines, to succeed him.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf fin-
ally signed the plans for the two big
battleships, which are to be of 20,
000 tons burden and built on the
Dreadnought pattern.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution held their annual elee-
tion, Mrs, Donald McLean being
again elected president general.
Brigadier General Alfred C. Mark-
ley was placed on the retired list.
The lack of searchlights at the
Boston coast defenses will prevent
night drilling by Massachusetts and
other coast artillerymen next July.
A similar state of affairs is sald to
exist all along the Atlantic Coast.
Dr. Ira Remsen, president of Johns
Hopkins University, was elected
president of the National Academy
of Sciences, and Dr. W, H. Welch,
also of Hopkins was elected a mem-
ber of the board of council,
Individual deposits in the national
banks of the United States have in-
creased about $154,000,000 in two
months.
HUNDRED DEAD
AND MANY INJURED
Earthquake's Terrible Destruction at
Chi'apa.
SULPHUR FUMES FILL THE AIR.
The Sulphur Phenomena an Evidence
That the Farthquake Had Its Origin
in Some Subterranean Explosion—No
News Yet From the Volcano Section
Shocks Continue.
Com-
in
City of Mexico (By Cable)
several towns
affected by the
Make it certain that
the death list will exceed 100, There
are a number of small towns yet to
be heard from, but up to date the
fatalities at these places have rang-
ed from 9 to 12 and the injured
from 30 to 40
Through an error made in the
transmission of a telegram from the
City of Chilapa, the city in the State
of Guerrero which was almost to-
tally destroved, the telegram
made to read that 233
been taken from the
injured had 1
al -
hospitals Later
munication with
the district
cent earthquake
most re-
Was
ruins
transferred
telegram
”y
{3
the
wa
and
perry 10
the
that
BOLE
were injured and 77
gstroved
One pred uliar
bas § been
first
for
ulphurous
great distress
‘here are many
16s Case
consider |t
had
Aan
quake its or
explosion
son considerable
is
surrounding
and Juri
The Water Sulphurous.
Even the i streams
was made
from
news
of Colima
water in the
tele-
oy
Bi
am
“In the
movement was
changed to i
could tell how long lasted
t of the | y of
nomena ha
more thar
nave
BAM
earth
and then
“a
NOL
tha
qx
OQ YN
trepl
on ace
4 Wo
n phe-
been
u the
the
time
vile
wher! excavati
On
far
made
houses were
yundred and
destroyed
seventy-ni houses
in
office
egraph
Losses On or
“The
82,000,000,
of
Cathedral,
the city hall
amounts to
total loss property,
the
and other
over $2.000.-
churches,
buildings
“The whole
stricken and
rebuilding
Since Sunday
been felt.”
A movement
population
nobody
the
or
a
is panic-
is thinking
destroyed houses.
distinct shocks have
is under way in the
of Mexico to furnish relief to
those who were rendered
and destitute in Guerrero
being made for the
Plans are
gathering of a
Vice President Ramon Corral, act-
ing for President Diaz, has taken an
active part in relief measures, and
sent the following message to
“The seismic movements on the
night of April 14, and those that sub-
sequently followed, have left nearly
the entire State of Guerrero in ruins,
especially the cities of Chilpancingo,
Chilapa, Tixtle, Ayutle and Acapulco.
“The calamities consist not only
of loss of property, which may be
considered as totally destroyed, sc-
cording to latest telegrams received
from the cities and towns above men-
tioned, but also a considerable num-
ber of lives lost and a large number
maimed and injured.
“In view of the gravity of the
catastrophe, the president of the re-
public considers that as a national
unit we ought not to leave the State
of Guerrero to shift for itself, but
that all states ag well as the federal
district find it thelr duty to offer co-
operation.”
Ashes Now A Common Fuel.
Lewistown (Special), —- Burton
Searer, of this city, has discovered
the secret of burning coal ashes and
his mother made a demonstration
before a number of people in the
family range, keeping a hot fire in
the range all day. Searer does not
use coal In his experiments, but
treats plain coal ashes with the so-
lution, reusing the ashes as they
drop through the grate. Searer is
still in his ‘teens and says the solu-
tion is ly cheap.
Girl Watches Suitors Shoot Until
One Falls,
After #8
the hand
model who had
the
deadly duel, one man wae killed in-
gtantly and the other, whose bullet
had plowed through the of
hig best fr g chum,
turned his ow his
breast and died hospl-
The young woman of
many of the participants’
friends who witnessed the fatal com-
mat, and she saw of her
sultore carried away a patrol
wagon to the morgue the hur-
ried dying to the hospital,
ed away as unconeernedly
an afternoon tea
This affair, which has no match
in the police annals of Greater New
York, and which even outdoes fiction,
occurred at Ozone Park, a suburb of
Brooklyn The partic nts of the
duel were Vincenzo
eight years old, a
dino, twenty-five
York
pistol
New {Bpecial).
battle
| artist's
furious for
f a aitifi
of a beautifu
promised to wed the victor in
heart
and lifelon
weapon
lend
against
the
n
n
later in
wae
tal one
the
after one
in
and
walk-
from
she
as
twenty
Tian-
whe
rd
Ha
VOSS
4
{ roomed together
nue, East
were artists of
ar
the be
™H ;
“ oy
a &
2
New
tion
New
{| whose
in
York
affections
ark-haired girl
ed with
au
lead
Jiear
she was |
both
them
choose
WARSHIPS IN BLAZE OF GLORY
Feature of Opening Ceremonies at
Jamestown,
Presidente
Capes and
route to
remain
when she
Roads
whic
New
until
will
The
h arriv
t Newport N sg undergoing
pairs
Mechanics [lusy.
Although Sunday was rainy and
| disagreeable, a large number of car-
| penterg and painters were employed
the various on the
{ ground There were a number
of visitors to go over grounds
| Owing to the exhibits being installed,
| many of the larger buildings are
| closed to outsiders, though the favor-
| od few who get inside see that there
lis a great deal being done and there
| will be many things to see on open-
ing day The government is going
to make an exceptionally good ex-
{hibit in its various departments,
| Nearly all of the exhibits have ar-
rived on the grounds, and they are
being placed by a corps of men who
have much experience in that clase
of work
The exhibit of the War Department
will be especially good. In the Man.
ufacturers’ Building 100 or more
booths are in various stages of com-
pletion, and the same is true of the
Food Products Building. in the
States’ Exhibit Building the work is
going on slowly.
Three gangs of men, each compris
ing more than 100, were put on
those roads that are yet to be fin-
ished One gang with scrapers and
steam rollers, prepares the surface,
the second gang lays bed rock and
gravel, while the other gang gives
the road the finishing touches. The
other gangs, each 100 strong, are
working on the walks, laying a bitu-
lithic footway that is put down rap-
idly and with but little trouble.
Ae————
IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD,
There was no change in the Bank
of England's discount rate.
The stock market is now wholly
professional in character, say al! the
leading brokers.
The Belmont Trust Company fis
the new name for the recently er
ganized State Trust & Security Com-
pany, of Philadelphia,
Wagers of two to one were offer
od on the street that Pen
May dividend will be 8
the same as the last
buildings
in
also
tha