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FRANCE TENDERS
and Japan.
THE FRANCO-JAPANESE TREATY.
Stability and Dependence in Adjust.
ing All Questionsin Far East Through
Treaty Awaited With Interest.
of the
Franco-
the
the
France of her good offices
United States in
service
Cable). — One
of the
which
Paris (By
immediate
Japanesa
point of being signed has
tender by
results
entente is on
been
to the she can
be of
plete
United
their
East,
France be
States should a
of ententes, rece
between the
the status quo in
the best means of
future lications and mi
standings, has formally
municated United Btates
her readiness
rt
case
promoting com-
the
in a
understanding between
States covering
the Far
and Japan,
respective interests in
United
to the
that the
arty
ntly arrived
guaranteeing
the Far East and
avoiding poss
lieves
become p
series 1
it powers,
nj
:
and
COI
How or
I of
China and the oc
Chauwin, le:
by France,
Port Art n
tection Korea by
that the recognition of
ence and integ
best guarantee
proclaim this
gtrengthen the
curity of China,
European interests
“In consequence France an
mutually guarantee the
status quo.”
Although
clude a com
hur
ver
Over
the entente does
mercial treaty
China, pending the conclusic
a treaty guarantees the
vored nation treatment f
in Indo-China and French
Indo-China in Japan.
it
ik
KILLED IN WABASH WRECK.
Train,
Pa
and
Washing
killed
wreck on the Wabasl
ton, { Special)
11 injured
Road o
were nj in
ne
ne
mile
east of Hickory,
tbound, crashed
id
giGi
Toledo we
express,
into a coal ng, teles-
coping the smoker and a
car. The flagm:
who ig said to be
ting the pa
giding occupied
disappeared
crash.
The dead
Anthony Sch
la, who were
lief train was
jured taken
burg.
The fireman
passenger train
the crash.
an of the coal train,
train on the
train
in
the coal
after
sgenger
by
atolls
iatery the
made
of
before
and engineer the
jumped Just
COTTON LEAK DIFFICULT.
Chief Statiscian Says It Is Impossi-
ble If Preparation Is Honest.
istician Victor H. Olmsted, of the
partment of Agriculture, testified
the trial of Edwin 8. Holmes,
former assisiant of
department, of pre-
maturely divulging information of
the department concerning the cotton
erop of the country, that a leak in
the crop report
if its preparation was honestly con-
ducted.
Stephen
in
Jr,
statistician that
rge
on the cha
D. Ferrenden, who was at
one time an statistician of
the department, testified that it
would be imposgible for anyone even
with all the information before him
to accurately forecast the crop report
an hour before its issuance, because
of the fact that the final figure is al-
wavs the result of the exercise of the
judgment of the chief statistician,
assistant
York, Pa. (Special). Tired of
life and grieving because of the death
of hiz mother, Reichard, 18
years old, shot and killed himself in
the lower part of York County
of Reichard's parents died
year ago.
sources and feeling, because of his
poor health, that he was unable to
fight the battles of life, he concluded
to die by his own hand.
Samuel
about a
57 Hurt In Wreck.
Nashville, Tenn. (Special). — Go-
ing at a speed of between twenty and
thirty miles an hour, Southern pas-
genger train No. 2, leaving Nashville
at 10.30 A. M., plunged off a 15-foot
embankment at Black Branch, near
Lebanon, Tenn., thirty-three miles
east of Nashville, shortly after 11
o'clock A. M., injuring fifty-seven
persons out of a total of sixty on
board.
THE NEWS 0
F THE WEEK.
Domestic.
An automobile containing Mrs,
Elizabeth Henderson and Mrs. Frank
Blackgon, of Philadelphia, collided
with a railroad train {n Camden, N.
J. Both women may die of their
injuries.
Miss Gertrude Beeks, secretary of
the welfare department of the Na-
tional Civie Federation, salled for
Panama to inquire into living condi-
tions among the laborers.
The wife of Governor Peabody, of
Colorado; Judge Gabbert and Mine
Manager Bradley confirm the stories
of Henry Orchard’s attempts on their
lives,
A gold and gem-studded vanity
box, worth $15,000 and belonging
to Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, lost
last fall, was received from a walter
at Sherry’'s.
The Standard
of exception
government
ruled, and
Michael
the estate
to
Oil Company's bill
suit by the federal
in Minnesota was over-
the case will proceed.
McBent, head stockman
of Howard Gould, was
death by a bull
The Iron, Steel and Tin
Iron Associations have
jagree on a scale
The State
Georgla has made reductions
road
The
{ who has
to
on
gored
a
a
Jar
to
and
failed
wage
Railroad Commission
in rail
of
fares,
. Howard Gould,
1it for a
oN
BLEW UP RAILRGAD
TRAINS, MINES OR MEN
{ motion of recently
appointed
Mary Baker
to be
to charge of Mrs
G f
substituted
{in place of the “next friends,”
began t litigation to secure an
counting of Mrs. Eddy's property.
An earthquake shock lasting about
10 seco
{ The oscillations
th. NO
ted.
Two
ne svt
i rope rey
as
who
He
O
Francisco
north
been re-
was felt in San
from to
we
re
damage has
indictments
st Policems
were
Hess,
th
eth
4]
again
o 2}
SALAD
formerly
married
Frelinghuy
in
sen Jack-
the and Gaynor
half a million
wvernment
Savannah
100
Green
con-
harbor,
handed
Cor and
to {
and
een
tence
+
i
ea
The
he
iliation,
adopted in
at
would
Cond
drowned whil
Thames,
The t labor
with May Day
| were itenced
two year
i Alexander McKenzie, a well-known
{ Canadian racing man, died of aj
pendicitis
King Peter
by being thrown
Belgrade
Emperor William's
{the German delegates to The Hague
{ conference are not to take any
in the discussion of the disarmament
auestion, but to note developments,
hears that England will
drop the question of disarmament
For the last few days
been another reign of
| Lodz, Russian Poland.
isons have been killed and 3
| ed, two of the killed being
owners,
While the Jepanese are irritated
iat the tardiness In effecting solution
of the Ban Francisco difficulty there
{ has been no advocacy of hostile dem-
{ongtration
i Florencio
near Cliveden
leaders charged
in Paris
risonment for
wo
agitation
imp
ser to img
Jo
of Servia was injured
from his horse in
instructions to
Germany
there has
terror in
Eleven per-
7 wound-
mill-
Morales and Bernardo
I Mora were found guilty at the City
lof Mexico of murdering General
Manuel Barillas, former president of
i Guatemala
The migration of Russians to
beria has assumed enormous
itions. From January 1 to May 16
{there wore 283.685 persons crossed
into Siberia.
8i-
King Oscar and his Queen vele-
brated their golden wedding and re-
ceived congratulations from all the
crowned heads of Europe.
Rumors of the impending disso-
fution of the Douma continue to cir.
culate in influential quarters in St
Petersburg.
United States gunboat Helena has
been ordered to Amoy, nearest port
to scene of armed uprising against
Chinese officials, In a battle be-
tween the Chinese provincial troops
and a body of rebels the latter Jost
over 100 men,
By Labor Leaders.
HE GOT PAY FOR ASSASSINATION.
Man Accused of Killing Governor
Steunenberg, of Idaho, at Instigation
of Western Federation of Miners,
Tells of Wrecking Two Trains, Blow-
ing Up Two Mines, Murder of Detec-
tive, Attempt to Kill Governor Pea.
body, of Colorado; Slaughter of
About 15 Men, Poisoning Milk of
Deputy Sheriff.
house of
islik organization
That av wood
Pettibone
Federation
: 1 the
execntlive
Fed
the mus
nr oy 8
Western
lanned
do it,
vond a doubt the
of consi aey to oo whole
d
der upon the chief
Western
wWaR
opponents
Federation
anv such tale ever told in
if
courtroos before it was a long
and nobody in these
And
It was | this
i
time ago,
it has just
unpar-
story of cold - blooded and
od
voice
iz ars? ination-——in a level,
that
and
the
quavered,
fell The
was
never
never
witness
lace 7! Was
of the alr of
There was
nor a soli-
never
method
acme of commonp
nothing about Orchard
the fanatic or the zealot
was never a single pose
tary attempt at effect
Set Deathtrap
Orchard confessed that as a mem-
of the mob that wrecked the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine, in the
Coetir d'Alenes, he lighted one of the
fuses that carried fire to the glant
powder explosion; confessed that he
get the death trap in the Vindicator
mine. at Cripple Creek, that blew
out the lives of Superintendent Mece-
Cormick and Foreman Beck; con-
fessed that because he had not been
TORS
of
ore
in Mine,
rindicator mine he had been
to his associates bY
in the
treacherous
PLOTS TO ASSASSINATE.
Governors,
Raced To Deathtrap.
under cross-examis
ge Orchard
shocking details
of secret
hunts
infernal
murder
making and
off
chine as
in the same quiet,
marked }
8 voice dropped
glories ¢ bomb
of
tales man with
and ma
the went
offhand manner
is demeaor Wednesday
to lower kevs
of the long hunt for
narrowed down the
and he told of the race from
the home to his
victim with the death trap, and the
meeting in the evening gloom as the
victim walked unconsciously to his
doom. Through it all he winced but
jonce, and that was when the defense
made him name his gix sisters and
his ore brother and give their resi-
.dences in Ontaro and New York.
Piece of Bomb in Court.
The defense fought the
ultipiicity of objections,
in heading off an
the story of the murder of
Collins, at Telluride, and
shut ont the contents
received and a
Orchard after his
sawed shotguns
q
Weapons, witness
on
n
that
Hi as
the pitiful story
teunenberg
last day,
the
Ss to
A
hotel to beat
with
and
attempt
story
“a in
succeeded
tell
Arthur
temporarily
of a telegram
gram sent by
rest
aged to get In its story
The state began its
Orchard’'s bloody
the lead casing
Peabody bomb
it, swore that
from Canyon City to Denver,
then on to Wallace, where
it to a man named Cunningham. It
was thrown into the river and the
gtate promisey later to prove its re-
covery.
to
ar-
intact,
corroboration
story by pro-
of the
of
ducing
ernor
tified
he brought it
and
Meat Prices Still Rising.
Chicago (Special).—-Meats of all
kinds, with the exception of the
poorest cuts of beef, have been ris
ing ®teadily in Chicago for three
weeks, and dealers say that the ad-
vance will continue. In some of the
poorer sections of. the city retall
dealers have not handled a plece of
meat, except beef, for the last three
weeks, Lamb, pork and other meats
are beyond the reach of thelr custo.
mers. Lamb has advanced 3 cents
a pound in the last three works,
IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD,
Better weather and better crop
news helped stock prices,
Since the "longshoremen’s strike
began the port of New York has lost
{over £10,000,000 of exports.
Gold to the amount of $2,000,000
whe engaged for export, making $2.-
750,000 this week. Paris Is getting
it.
One big Wall Street trader bought
20,000 Union Pacific, which other
traders said was to cover a short
[re
DEALS A DEATH
ing $253,200.
Agrees to Surrender
ment for
Plates, Ete,
Ala.
Tuesday
of defendants
the Southern
entered
indictment
cause the
lottery adverts
to the pleas of g
to
for
plate
Mobile,
Toulmin
the
court
(Special).
imposed fines
CARER who
for district
Alabama
an
to
pleas oi guilty
charging cons
inter:
ements
tate carriage
In
defendant
the
surrender he ge
dest
and
fmm
ity
{agreed
ment
Ivern
ietion
| books,
and
the
Hon
other
{lia
of
Masterton, Savi
Plant in Wilmington,
Wt ‘
Ww allale innaa,
Del.
( BTEe Apgar Walter J
ruggle of
The
rinting
Was
ny
al
. 3 +: 1a 4
ii Pie ©
tickets were pri with
i the
Over.
able
but
OF
time in
in
tab-
and
been
a «
18507 ri
lishment Mobile was
certain packages which
shipped from that city
at Atlanta,
crossed the state
With the
the government indictments
against those who entered a plea of
guilty, together with a few others
i
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL
mspirs case
the ting
raided
ad
were seized
after had
line
evidence
Ga they
th
th obtained
us
secured
Told
§
A delegation rej
tional Association Postmasters
Officos of the First Clase called
Postmaster General Meyer
resenting the B
of
upon
af
advance in
twine Postoflice
have been cautioned to
in its use
Director Robert
stricken with
recover,
are now
wrynting in
Because of the
rice of jute
em-
be
4
| ployes
{economical
| Medical
imion was
| He will
There
daVivnry
A
paralysis
~
aw
40
i4 free rural
3 operation, with
{37.566 carriers.
| Dr. Wiley bas begun an investiga-
{tion into violations of the pure food
law
i August Franke, of Dubuque, Ia,
jealled at the White House to gel a
{million dollars from the President.
The government is said to be
ready to file a bill in equity against
anthracite cos! roads for violating
the Bherman antitrust law.
Mrs. Irabel M. Case, who has been
dogging the President's footsteps for
the past year, was formally pro-
nounced insane by a jury.
Terrence V. Powderly, former com-
missioner general of immigration,
will be appointed chief clerk of the
newly created bureau of information
of that department.
The President may have the Meat
Trust investigated because of recent
rajee in vrices of dressed meats.
4
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
Latest News Gleaned From Various
Parts,
lock Haven
barn belonging to John
ed, entalling a loss of
horses, live stock
Were
Near bank
burn-
Six
last
large
Snyder
$5500
and all
consumed
ie, who
: , 64% g
scuflie at
a
other
Beason’s crops
George Barklow, of yvil
polls
injuries
denly {ll
headlong
hig head,
while
io
and
ter MceCa
found
Hotel
Cot
Was
for
‘ownghij
ne 1
Pottsville Uni
Matz
000 damages
drove
re
yovern
er i
Isabel
composed
nu wv
Altoona
order to
on th
Pennsyiv:
rescinded 1
in the voli
sald be
{this time of
Rev. Robert C
isigned the
Hospital
reduce the
to
the year
Williamson has
PV
14 nar
middie of
he will 3
Cause and ron
ably to his native State-—2Alis
sour
Several months Walter Biddi-
son bought hotel at Oxford
65,000 and he has now #o:d |
{Ira McLaughlin, of Newark, Di
£75.000
In
1887
ago
the
twenty
$3 Bay
Laere
the
to
i vorees granted in
| During the same period
riages wore issnod
Truman Clair Sheats, a 12-year-old
{son of OU. W. Sheats, of Lock Hascn,
died in the hospital of tetanug ps the
result of slepping on a nail a week
ago
tev, William
past
180%.
Years,
©
v 3
44
ount
1.81% m
ore
Clinton
Horn, son of Rev
Dr. BE. T. Horn, of Reading, will
probably be elected pastor of the
Lutheran Church of the Advent, one
of the mo=t important chnrches in
New York York City, suceceding the
late Rev. Dr. Krotel, whose assistant
de Was.
Mutiny Ar Ciar's Palace.
St. Petersburg (By Cable), — A
mutiny broke out among a squadron
of Hussars of the guard stationed
at "harskoe-8clo, where the Imperial
family had just removed. The mu-
tineers were promplly suiroundwl
and disarmed and order vas =
stored without aay bloodshed.