® re Ee vo THEY FAVOR THE LOCK TYPE OF CANAL Congressional Party at Panama Indorse Plan, RUMCRS HAVE NO FOUNDATION. They Also Return Assured Of The Stability Of The Gatun Dam — A California Congressman Who Wants Appropriation For Building Of Ten Great Steamships To Sail On The Panama Line, New York (Special).—Further in- dorsement of the lock type of canal and assurances of the stability of the Gatun Dam were voiced here by members of the congressional party which returned on the steamer Pan- ama after an unofficial inspection of the Canal Zone. Representative Michael Conry, of New York was emphatic in his ap- preciation of the educational value of the trip just concluded. ‘Many of us,” said he, “left New York with the idea that the sea level system of canal construction should have been adopted. But after personally inspecting the great work and fa- miliarizing ourselves with the con- ditions on the isthmus all of us, I feel safe to say, return convinced that the lock system the better of the two.” Representative Jameson, of Iowa, dorsement said that the alarming reports culated concerning the stability the Gatun Dam had absolutely foundation, ‘**We gave particular attention this section of the canal work,” said he, the dam is safe for all time.” is Darius his William added cir- of no 10 i | { SHOOTS GIRL AT SMITH COLLEGE Her Fiance, After Killing Her, Blows Northampton, Mass, (Special).—- For the first time in the history of Smith College, whose alumnae num- ber thousands, and whose undergrad- uates have counted more than a thousand a year for a decade past, murder and suicide horrified the col- lege community when Helen Ayer Marden, of Somerville, Mass., a sen- lor, was shot to death by her dis- carded flance, Porter McDougal Smith, of Chicago, graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1908, and for many months a traveling sales- man. Smith engaged the girl in con- versation after he had met her near one of the entrances to the college campus, returned with her to the college grounds and walked a short distance to the broad pavement in front of the students’ building. He and the girl stood for a few seconds and then there came the muffled report of a pistol, for the shot was fired at very close range. The young woman swayed with a wound in the right temple and was falling to the ground when another shot was fired and the ball missed her. She fell on her face on the pavement, and as she lay there Smith stood over her and drove a bullet into her back. Men ran to disarm him, but as they approached he pressed the smoking muzzle of the new .32-caliber pistol with which he had fatally wounded the girl to his left temple and blew out his brains. He fell to the ground dead, body lying within four feet his that the convinced of California, declared left him all the more trip bill providing for a government propriation of ten 5,000-ton steam- ships to ply between Puget and Panama. “The ships that now ply between New York and Colon,” sald “leave here with large cargoes the isthmus and come back light. With vessels in commission on the Pacific side there would be handed over large cargoes from the Coast for delivery to the New York. he, port BABY OUT IN BLIZZARD, Foundling In Half-Bushel Basket Covered With Snow, Erie, Pa half bushel ( Special } —Lying hasket, well with girl baby three weeks old was found during a blizzard here on the doorsteps of John T. 1515 Cascade Street, The clothing indicated its parents wealthy. Late in the afternoon was learned that ing to be from Pa.. had taken fFnow, a Cambridge a child to Springs, the er did not accompany it. are searching for the two who were fashionably attired. THROUGH FIRE TO SAFETY. Narrow Escape Of Audience At Mov. ing Picture Show, Dies In Two Miss Marden lived until o'clock, when she died in the room in the students’ building, into which she was carried after the shooting. Those who loved Helen Marden most say that Smith was out of his and that he would not have committed the deed had he been Her sister, Louise Marden, a member of the Smith junior class, says she does not blame him for what he did, for he could not have known what it was he was do- ing. Smith's own sister would make no statement. Hours. that BY TELEGRAPH President Taft attended the cele- in Alexandria, Va., of the one hundred and twentieth anniver- gary of George Washington's first in- auguration and fication of a park to his memory Next army officers headed K. Evans, acting president Army War College, will their march over Virginia fields Acting Secretary Oliver proved a recommendation Board of Engineers for a survey the Delaware River, with a 356 feet deep, the dex Col. Robert of start by the has by ap- the of its substitute for the Payne Tariff Bill, practically revers- dred people walked under an of flame in an exit from the cent Nickelodeon following an ex- plosion in the lamp room, which re- sulted in entrance of the building. Two wom- en fainted after reaching the street, and the moving picture operator was severely burned. what threatened to be a serious pan- ic. The blaze was extinguished with a small loss, Cres. James H. Hyde Condemned. Paris (8pecial).—James Hazen Hyde, of New York, former vice president of the Equitable Life As- surance Society, and his chauffeur, Ladwice, were condemned by default. Mr. Hyde to one month's imprison- ment and a fine of $3 They were charged with running into a public taxicab last passenger. The complainants charg- ed that after slipped away. Under a law a special offense. At present Hyde is on an automobile trip the Riviera. in Roosevelt A Grandpa, Beverly, Mass. (Special). It whispered here that the stork will visit the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nicho- as J. coming summer and leaves a grand- child for former President Roosevelt, The Longworths have leased a cot- tage here in anticipation of event. The cottage, which is only a short distance from Woodbury Point, where President Taft's family is ex-- be put in order at once. Beat His Daughter On The Street. Chicago (Special). Anthony Flgh- er was arrested in front of his home while beating his 7T-year-old daugh- ter with a heavy strap. The child wag screaming, and 200 persons ware on the point of attacking Fisher when the police arrived, Fisher was put in a cell. Footpad Stabs Woman, New York (Special).—Mrs, Gerth an Holman, wife of Henry G. Hol- man, a civil engineer of Minneapolis, was attacked on the street by a foot pad and wounded In the arm. Mrs. Holman was on her way to visit a drug store when the footpad, an [talian, sprang upon her and, with- out a word, aimed a furious blow at her with a knife. She instinctively raised her arm and the knife penes trated it to the bone. Taft the President further protest from heard a shoe and Conditions in the interior of Me- rocco are bad, according to advices which reached the State Department from the legation at Tangier The Senate adjourned until Mon- day to afford the Finance Committee an opportunity to complete its work on the Tariff Bill The Senate Committee on Finance heard protests from a large delega- tion of tobacco men and cigarmakers Representative Hollingsworth, of Ohlo, prepared a resolution that questions the propriety of the sliver service the State of Mississippl pro- poses to give to the battleship Mis- sissippl. Dr. Wiley submitted to the Solici- tor of the Department of Justice some analyses to show how recti- filers are palming off adulterations for straight whisky. John A. Benson, who was tried for the alleged bribery of officials of the government land office, was ac- quitted. The Attorney QGeneral has given instructions to push the prosecution Secretary Meyer says that the bat- eship fitt’'s long trip was not so for in The grois postal rece pts March Indicate an improvement business, Appeal was received by the Red Cross Society from Blerut, request- of the society for rellef work Asia Minor. Representative in Kinkaid, of New mit subordinate posts of the Ameri- can Veterans of Foreign Service to use the Krag-Jorgensen rifles, ed an amendment to the tariff bili reducing the duty on typesetting ma- chines from 45 to 10 per cent ad valorem Contracts have been awarded by the Isthmian Canal Commisdion ap- proximating in value $1,000,000 for supplies to be delivered during 1910. The gunboat Vicksburg has been ordered placed in commission at the Mare Island Navy Yard and directed to proceed to the Atlantic Coast. The body of Major Plerre Charles L’Enfant, who designed the National Capitol, was removed to the Arling- ton Cemetery. Pedro Rojas, the new Venezuelan minister to the United States, made an informal call of Secretary Knox. Zenator Scott made a strong speech declaring that his State need- ed tariff protection to develop its re- sources, d The Middle West And The South Are Devastated By A Fierce Storm That Swept Down From The North, Breaking Up Into Many Small But Violent Cyclones On Its Way To The Gulf—The State Of Tennessee Is An Especially Heavy Suffcrer——Death List Grows As Belated Reports Arrive—Storm Still Raging And Heading South cast, THE DEATH LIST. Tennessee Missouri Alabama Arkansas | Georgia 60 26 15 156 10 This belated logs of In and further ist is only partial reports announce life. Michigan, nois, Ohio and there were least | victims Wisconsin, I1li- Pennsylvania at additional Atlanta, Ga. demic of cyclones the like of which known for years, swept ahrough the South, leaving in of | dead the { Spec An tornadoes, fal). epi- and have not been their mangled and { dismapgtled wrecks of property worth hundreds bodies wakes and millions An exact list of accurate estimate of logs may not be compiled but from all along the the dead and the an monetary for days, path of the Constantinople (Special), — Meh- 1 {med V., in the new Sultan of and Turkey, accome- dozen a khaki! uniform, by a suite of half a household, drove and from where his | through Constantinople the Mosque of 8t. Sophia, new sovereign praved for { hour. The simplicity was in strong contrast to | pomp with which Abdul Hamid wa wont to go and his prayers, an is taken as an C4 ocratic encies of tO the an selam- nearly of this 11” the f AIK Lhe oy nce of the end the Get Good Look At This was the first time jects of Mehmed V. have had a good chance to look at him. They saw a stout old gentleman who seemed to be enjoying the occasion as much anyone in t immense holiday His Majesty entered St through the Bultan’s entrance had not been in 26 years, Inst occasion being {when Abdul Hamid took Rudolph { (the Crown Prince of Austria) to the mosque, The moment the Sultan stepped {out of his carriage onto the red car- {pet leading into the building a priest in a black robe cut the throats of two rams, and the sacrificial blood flowed almost to the feet of the new ruler Him. the sub- {As he i crowd, Sophia This door, the Prays For An Hour. Mehmed V. prayed within the mosque for nearly an hour, while the Sheik-ul-Islam and a large number of priests chanted the services. Only a few other worshiperg were CK HAND F BLA | | | storm come tales of fearful loss of life and descriptions of whole towns and villages completely wiped out, The storm wave seems to have had its origin in the North and swept from the lake region South in irreg- ular fashion. The State of Tennessee was an especially heavy sufferer. At 10 o'clock P. M., careful estimates in- dicate that at least 50 people were killed in the Volunteer State alone, while the loss in dollars and cents will not fall short of a million. At Franklin and in Hillsboro there was loss of INe., The latter town is said to be practically destroyed, while at Centerville and adjoining villages the damage is reported very heavy, both in Hves and property. Near Pulaski, in Giles County, the death list reached 12 and many were injured. . In the vicinity of Chattanooga the storm was felt at its worst. As in other parts of the State the tele phone and telegraph wires were blown down and the movement of trains are greatly hampered. The hurricane followed the farmhouses Ebenezer, 18 down. At greatest damage was ence with commerce, were the houses » 1 Knoxville from At River from the destro Hiawassee Tennessee Valley, property. At Fayettey known to have perished. At Cuba many houses down and at Gillestown shed was left standing up the ving lle three blown even were not information is meager. Memphis reports he towns within a radius in three States very loss 100 of miles Sul- vast personali- Mouck- admitted to the mosque and the tan was almost alone in the interior. He was nded ly by Field Marshal Ghazi tar atl Restored At And Adana, Had jin { Special) A cable order had been and Adana, in ived from Rev. W. Peet, treasurer of the Amer- loard Commissioners for Missions at Constantinople, American Board's headquar- ters in this city According to t missionaries and erty are safe Boston mes. gage announcing that restored at Hadj * a Minor, was rece i ican of the he dispatch, all the the mission prop- 22 Armenian Pastors Shot, Marash, Asiatic Turkey (Special) The situation here has improved and the missionaries and the city are at ease. Many of the stirround- ing villages. however, are in ruins. During the early days of the out- break 22 Armenian pastors who were their way to Adana to at- making tend a meeting of the district They had taken refuge in a church during a storm The tribesmen set the building on fire and the pastor were shot down as they came out of the door Among them was Heg- henian, who received his education at Edinburgh and whose recent im- pr sonment at Constantinople caused the British Government to protest to Turkey ENT ANOTHER PLOT T0 KIDNAP BOY I—— $10,000 Demanded of Willie Whitia's Father. Boston Police "Capture Men In Post. office While Waiting For Reply From James Whitla Boston (Special). — Charged with attempting to extort $10,008 from James Whitla, of Sharon, Pa., under the threat they would again kidnap his son Willie Whitla, two men were brought to police headquarters for an examination. The men, who were arrested at the South End Postof- fice, gave their names as John W Wright and Ernest H. Martin The police claim that on April 23 Wright and Martin wrote to Mr. Whitla demanding that he send them $10,000 under penalty of having Willie kindnapped. The letter sta- ted that the writers had no regard for the life of the child, and that he would only be a means to ac- complish their end of getting from Mr. Whitla the sum named From the general tone of the let- ter, the police believed that a watch at the South End Postoffice might be profitable Two officers who were awaiting developments there saw Wright and Martin enter arrested them The said a search of Martin's pocket in findir a red gimilar to the ised in ter to Mr Whitla The letter was printed in with rubber paper and was mal Dorchester POs as follows, of of nearly “Dear Sir: Our ing received the of boy, voted to tend the of all and 9% close police ink pad the ty pe white the led central flee ghorn every i ty BOCK money Arrangements of getting boy in the night, “This may mean death boy, | so it was voted to give you a chance The Black Hand, | on receiving sanie, will not trouble | you Not interested in the Boyle tools of our men $50 bills and $9.0 Send it in three Monday morning. will go hard take him again to the frsgt JUBL in a6 G60 | $1 Have | teint ATICK~ in it ery, here No or it with the 3 " ietters Post Send Arthur Station A Howard Boston, After the old a man give him 50 woul at the South End postoffice (8 A) and ask for a letter f Howard Brown. Sharon, Pa, Whitla and the the story arrest m of the two m the police that he had! who told him he would | cents if d call station Arthu en. met ne ry vr "7 I {8pecial) James local pol Boston as ceipt of a letter by Mr April 23, demanding containing the paid Billy napped again t the from to the Whitla $10, 1 | Hat : anag threat that if it was Whitla would be kid- Mr. Whitla declined contents of the letter admitting this much He showed the letter to the! police immediately after its and sent it to the Bos- | ton police with the request that they watch the postoffice general delivers Mr. Whitia said he had no idea] it was an attempt of amsa- teurs to extort money from him or whether there was another plot back of abduct the boy again 600 not 0 slate beyond said he Sharon receipt then SCHOOLGIRL SWALLOWS KEY. | X-Ray And Silver Tube Bring Her Around Allright. Mineola, L. 1 Smith, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, | is doing well at the Nassau Hospital here after having a key removed from her throat and a silver tube in-| serted in the wound. ! She was packing up her books to | ieave school, when the key to her | pencil box, which she had been hold- ing in her mouth, slipped down her: throat he x-ray upon { Special) .—Joseph- | % ine was turned New York gons, five of them children, were injured, tome of them fatally, in an incendiary fire in a five-story tee ment house at 37 Spring Street, oc- cupied by 20 Italian families. blaze followed a demand by i clety for the payment of $1,000 blackma 1. It spread through the bu:lding with startling rapidity, as the hallways were soaked with kero- {sense ofl by the blackmallers. | Throw Babes Out Windows. In a panic which followed the lalaram the tenants fought thelr way {down the fire escapes or jumped from {the windows, while babies were {thrown from windows into the arms of policemen on the sidewalks. Of the injured, six of whom are not expected to recover, three are children, Jacob Bruck, the proprietor of a grocery store on the main floor of the building, received on April 18 a letter reading: “We demand $1,000 or death. Theologian Killed, Chicago (Special). — Rev. Hugh MeDonald Scott, professor of ecclesi- astical history at the Chicago Theo- logical Seminary, was killed here. He was crug ed between two sure face cars at State and Van Buren Streets. The minister was confused by the storm and did not see the tran into which he stepped, He died at 8t Luke's Hospitall a short thine after the accident. » i but the Black Hand lives, “Black Hand Society.” is dead, police. Saturated With Kerosene, The alarm was spread by the fir- ing of a volley of revolver ghots from the main door and found the hall Two haif-emptied cans of The frightened tenants fled to the roof or thronged the fire escapes in the rear, which were clogged with obstructions. Men and women were fighting for a way down the escapes when the police went up, aided them, and entering the rooms brought out several unconscious persons, In the scramble feveral tenants were injured by falling from the escapes, and the police had to elud the men to save the women and chil- dren. The loss was about $10,000. es A SR et RRR 82,000,000 Dot, Alken, 8. C. (Special) «It was said that before Count Colloredo- Mannsfeld, Miss Nora Iselin’s flance. left for Washington, papers were signed guaranteeing him the trans. fer of $2,000,000 to his name before the marriage takes place in May. The lselins will leave Alken on Sat- urday for New Rochelle. Oount Mannsfeld will soon proceed from Washington to New Rochelle, where the wedding is to be held. in the! the gir] ia nserted and tube removed The silver wound was getting well Children Dead; Shoots Himself. Latrobe, Pa. (Special) A. M Kendall, 38 year: old. whose five children were burned to death when Pa., was de- | instantly. Brooding over the his mind, under ! and he had been time, Young Girl In A Deep Trance. Kenton, O. (Special).— Physicians | Laura Casper, 17] old, have been unable to arouse the girl from a trance into! which she fell last Saturday. Phy-| gicians think the girl's sleep due to! a nervous disorder. IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE Railroads of the West send out en- couraging crop reports. Rock Island system's net profits in March increased 17 per cent. In a year the share value of North Butte has shrunk $15,000,000. Holland is the best buyer of Ameri- can copper at the present time, April copper exports are keeping up the average of about 1,000 tons dally. In the third week of April twenty railroads show an average gain of 12 per cent. in gross earnings. The “Copper Hand Book” for 1908, by Horace J. Stevens, who is a recognized expert in copper minin affairs, contains an account of 0767 different companies, besides a de- tailed review of the copper industry of the United States, Prominent financial people in Phil. adelphia have had private advices from Washington to the effect that the United States Supreme Court will not render the commodity clause des cision until after Congress adjourns. Samuel F. Houston was elected a director of the Interstate Railways | WILL BE NG STRIKE OF THE HARD COAL MEN The Three-year Agreement Signed at Philadelphia, ADROP IN THE PRICES OF HARD COAL I'he Settlement Is Identical With: The One Signed At New York In 1906, The Union I= Not Officially Recs ognized — Concessions Made By The Operators Are Of Great Moral Effect, Says E. 8. McCullough—Ef- forts Will Ile Made To Settle Grieve ances Without An Appeal. ANTHRACITE MINERS’ AGREEMENT. The rates which shall be paid for new work shall not be less than the rates paid under the strike COmMmMmIssion & award for work of a similar kind of char- acter, The arrangement collection of property shall the of am employe d ‘ r A right the con 14 0iG permitiipg the On COMPANS continue uring agreement ed dues the Lie 11 fe BCharg éa men be nave tn Bef of the agreem L. F and wl y ed by retaries of th message national of on ti ieath of his Good Understanding. Following the conference E i¢ Culiough, national vice presi of the union, who represents Mr. the concessions made by operators were ag great In ag they were in agreement shows, he said, that the anthracite operators mineworkers have a better un- S favs JOR A i not value effect. The pecuniary The following statement was is- sued after the meeting by the opera- tors’ committee of seven “The operators are gratified that peace and quiet are assured in the anthracite regions for the next three The agreement signed ex- tends the award of the strike com- mission of 1902 until March 31, 16832, contains, besides, five stipula- added at the request of the representatives. “The regarding provision new workers’ committee in Philadelphia on April 8 “The arrangement for the posting in the spring of 1908, and is now in- corporated in the agreement. This conferences of the last few Settling Grievances, “The third additional stipulation, referring to the discharge of em- ployes, is contained in the award of the strike commission and has been in force for six years, bat it is added to the agreement at the request of the representatives of the minework- ers. - “The understanding that an at- grievances directly before an appeal to the Conciliation Board is in line with what the aperators have always desired. They are quite willing to have this definitely stated in the agreement, though they consider that it comes within the general agree- ment extending the award of the commission. “The arrangement for more explic- it pay statements is made because the mineworkers' representatives claim that at some collieries confu- sion to the man has resulted from incomplete statements.” To Give Michigan Cities Home Rule. Lansing, Mich. (Special). The fenate has passed a “home rule” bill and the House, in committee of the whole has agreed to a similar measure. The bills aim to secure a greater degree of “home rule” and unformity in the city charters, with. out revoking any powers at prosont enjoyed by the municipalities, A futile effort was made in the Ilouse to eliminate a provision enabling oit- ies to own street railways and te,
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