ws & Winlack Ss and Counselors at Law. LAW BUSINESS Phone 1508. Sayre. D. Stevens, aad Real Estate, Women and of the Hec- Hours Toa m.1 to at Mo tial In- CARDINAL RICHARD. of mational security, under which the minister of war willeummon ecclesias- tical students to rejoin thelr regiments at once. The fast bound bonds which for near iy a thousand years have united the Eovernment of France and the church of Rome we~ broken by Premier Cle mencedu In enforcing the new line of Separation, now in effect By refusing to accept that law or any compromise under other less drastic laws the pope bas rendered public Catholic worship In France jllegal henceforth except In schismatic organizations. The first gun In the battle between church and state was fired when Mgr. Montaguinl, secretary of the papal nunciature bere since the recall of the nuncio, was arrested upon an order of Premier Clemenceau expelling him from Francs snd was conducted to the frontier, The residence of Mgr. Moutagnini Was searched by the police and Im- Mmense quantities of documents found at the nunciature were seized and tak- en to police headquarters. A courier from the pupal secretary of state, Cardinal Merry del Val, bear. lng dispatches from Rome, was turned back at the frontier. Formal notice was served during the day on Cardinal Richard, archhisbiop of Paris, and tbe bishops and parish must vacate their residences at once. Similar notices were served on the clergy In the other departments, notify- ing them to leave thelr residences on or Friday, ‘War Minister Ploquart ordered the recruiting officers to require ecclesi- Astical students to present thelr certifi. cates. Those who fail to do 50 by Dec. 20 will be ordered to join the colors Jan. 7. ‘The order affects 5.500 stu. After a meeting of the cabinet min. Isters It was announced that on Dec. 14 Premier Clemenceau will ask pariia- ment to suppress the pension of the clergy, to Jiquidate the public property of Catholics and to distribute the pres- T measures the cabinet proposes to ng the government to expel ecclesiastics whose presence Is consid- } dangerous to the public pesce. - ‘The tone of the republican press of All shades indicates that if the pope imagines that an incompromising at- titede will compel the French govern. went to open negotiations with the Vatican he bas woefully mistaken the letper of the people, who favor a more ‘hodtile rather than a more conciliatory wttitude. EE ———— Memorial (o Jokn Smith and Company _ NEW YORK. Dec. 12.—It {s announc- that the Calohial Dames of Amerios lve appointed n committee to erect a Memorial at Jamestown, Va. to com. | memorate the landing of John Smith 284 bis company in connection with ‘the Jamestown exposition next spring. The Colonia) Dates propose fo erect & Mmamorial gute at the entrance to the tract which Includes the original site of Jamestown. . “It seems hardly worth while to pay any attention to the attacks Presi dent Roosevelt has chosen to make up- on myself and husband. No one knows the truth better than President Roose volt. TI will say that the friendship between the two families has been of long standing and of the closest na- N Roosevelt was made assistant necre tary of the navy, and it came about In this way: “Mr. Btorer and I went to Canton to pay President and Mrs McKinley a friendly visit and also to ask for the appointment of Mr. Roosevelt ta be assistant secretary of the navy. I told the president that I was not there to | ask for anything for my husband, but that 1 did want an appointment for a friend, and It would be a great person. al favor If he would grant my request and make Mr. Roosevelt assistant sec retary of the navy “He at first opposed it by saying that Mr. Roosevelt was too much of a fight: ef and he feared It would not be a wise appointment to make. 1 then told him Mr. Roosevelt bad been n member of the civil service commission and had been compelied to be a fighter. but I felt sure be would All the position with great honor and do the work well. “President McKinley also remarked that Senator Lodge had stopped off at tion, where he had been to nominate Thomas B. Reed at the presidential convention. % . "President McKinley remarked that Mr. lodge was petting In the band Wagon pretty quick “Before leaving the president told me that he would try to make Ihis ap pointnient to please me, and he after ward did.” . —— MRS. BIRDSONG GUILTY. Slayer of Dr, Butler Recommended to Merey of Court, HAZLEHURST, Miss, Dec. 12— Mrs. Augie Birdsong was found gulity of mauslaughter for killing Dr. Thom- as Botler and was recommended by the jury to the mercy of the court. After the verdict, while the young defendant sat crying, with a young child In het arms, a deputy approached fo take her to Jail. When he lifted the child the little one sobbed, “Mamma, don't let him have me" Mrs. Birdsong was not compelled to remain lo jall, but spent the night un. der surveillance at a hotel. Her uncle, United States Seanator McLaurin, who had left Hazlehurst, was telegraphed for to return and make a motipn for a new trial today. The court did not at- fempt to pass sentence. The minimum penalty for manslaughter in this state Is A fue of $300. Mrs. Birdsong, who Is twenty-two years of age and a member of a lead. ing family, in November, 1905, shol and killed Dr. Thomas Butler She al leged that he had boasted of Hlielt re- lations with her-and that his boasts Were untrue. The tragedy occurred fn Monticello, Miss, —————————— Horse Stele the Mall Wages. NEW YORK, Dec. 12 —Postoffice offi. clals are ready to award a bouquet to Ned, a big bay horse that is a veteran In the mall hanling service. Without a driver to guide bim he pulled a heavi- ly loaded mall wagon from Station N, at Broadwny and Sixty-ninth street, to Station H, at Madison avenue and For ty-fourth street. The entire detective force of the West Sixty-eighth street station was scouring the precinct for liours, looking for the lost msTl wagon and_ its contents, supposing It to be stolen,” —— Garfield on Trusts. PRINCETON, N. J, Dec. 12-James R. Garfield, who has been nominated for secretary of the inteMor, delivered the second Trask lecture here last night, speaking ou the subject “The Relation of the Government to Corpo rations.” Ar. Garfield sald that the activities of corporations have so Io. creased that almost all hoslness Is now done in the corporate form, Ie sald that the federal license will ltl. mately be the method which will con. trol corporations and prevent un just monopolies, ——————— Stevens Man Not Mesizned. NEW YORK, Dec. 12. John F. Ste veus, chief engineer, and J. 0. Sulll Yan, assistant chief engineer of tie Panama canal commission, arrived here on the steamer Panam from Co lon. They are home for fhe holiday» and expect {0 return to the Isthmus early In Jaunary. Concerning the ru mor reported from Panama that he might reign from the commission, Mr Stevens sald that he Nail uoi res gue! and that reports that be Intended doing 80 were unfounded. Weatern University Gets 8300.000. CLEVELAND, 0. Dee, 12-Pres| dent Charles F. Thwing annoances that CORTELYOU AND GARFIELD HELD UP Senators Insist Upon Kaowiag Fram President Roosevelt When Seere- taries Shaw and Mitcheook Will Leave Cabinet. WABHINGTON, Dec. 12—The ques tion of Senator Reel Swool's right to & seat us a United States senator from Utah was discussed by Scuator Bur. rows io the senate. Seaator Smoot oc cupled his place in the chamber. No Interruptions were made during the entire speech, which was an arraign- ment of Mormonlsm's responsibility which attached to Mr. Smoot for Mor mon principles as a wember of the apostolic body of the church Mark Twain was au interested listeger in the galleries, Senator Dulols announced that he Should address that body tomorrow on & resolution declaring that Senatur Reed Smoot is not entitled to a seat as Senator from Utah. The finance committee of the sen- ate considered the nominations of Postmaster General George B. Cortal- Jou to be secretary of the {reasury and of James KR. Garfield to Le secretary of the interior. The point was raised that no vacan- €y existed in either of the cabinet of- fices named and that no definite infor- mation was at hand as to when a va- cancy would occur. The committee, therefore. decided to postpone action nntil more definite information Was had. Stand pat on spelling was Represent. ative Keifer's plea during the course of a speech he wade In the house. He sald that for the first time in the his tory of the country it was proposed to legislate on the proper use of the Eng- lish language in the public prints. “You will be compelled to spell accord: log t law, according to Webster's or some other standard dictionary,” he re- marked, and added, “The author of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets was not much of a speller, and he used only a vocabulary of 15,000 words" The president has sent Congress a spe- cial message ou Porto Rico, giving the results of his observations during bis recent visit to that Island. “I found the Scenery there wonderfully beautiful” be says, “especially among the moun: tains of the Interfor. which constitute & veritable tropic Switzerland.” The president was also deeply Impressed by the fertility of the Island dnd by its “admirable government' He praises especially the showing of the schools In the cloven towns he visited and the insular police and native troops. It would be n mistake from every standpoint to discontinne the Porto Rican regiment, he declares He found the frult, sugdr cane and tobac co Industries to be growing rapidly. but was disappointed in the coffee crop, which has not recovered from the ef. fects of the lLurricane of some years &go. He requests congress to take Some action for the benefit of “the ex cellent and high grade Porto Rican to bacco.” Continulog, he says “There is n matter to which [ wish to cull your special attention, and that Is the desirability or conferring full American citizenship upon the people of Porto Rico. 1 most earnestly hope that this will be done. | cannot see bow any harm can possibly result from It, and It seems to me a matter of right and justice to the people of Porto Rico They are loyal; they are glad to be un. der our flag: they are making rapid progress along the path of orderly lib- erty. Surely we should show our Ap- preciation of them, our pride In what they have done and our pleasure In extending recognition for what has thus been done by granting them full American citizenship ™ The presklent speaks in high terms of the act of congress which provided for the government of the Islands, ————————— Confensed Newton Bank Robbery, GREAT BEND, Kan, Dee 12. -Jo sept 8, Kearns, the former Chicago dry goods clerk und DEWSpaper man, who was captured here after robbing a hank at Great Bend, Ran, in broad daylight, has confessed to baving rob bed the Midland National bank at Newton, Kan. The Newton robbery was committed io the afternoon of Nov, 18, Kearns locking the clerks and Custoiners, six in all, In the bank vault anil escaping with $1,300 fessed that Le went part of the money secured In the Newton robliery to his mother and sisters at Ann Arbor, Mich —————— Wife Murder Trial at Rochester. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 12-WII linm Basch of this £ity has been placed on trial here charged with mur det In the first degree for killlug luis wife, Roxanna Braschi. Brasch is ac cused of throwing his wife Into the ca. nal on June 15 last. It is alleged that Brasch killed his wife in onder to mur. £¥ Mabel Gilmore, 1 widow of Alliance 0, with whom he Lad bacome infatuat od. Brasch was arrested In Cleveland, 0. where he fied after the deed and where he was found in the company of the Gilmore womgn » Dispute as to God's Neslgnation, GUTHRIE, Okla, Dee 12--The con stitutions oomiventlon had un beated discussion ax to whothér the supreme IBA] nn “the ie Miler of hh. Ml aT of 50 Petitions i different from athelety \ we STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY. Bishop MeCabe of Philadelphia Lies IN In New York Hospital. NEW YORK, Dec. 12—Bishop Charles C. McCabe of Philadelphia, one of the leading divines In the Methodist Epls- copal church, was stricken with apo- plexy as he stepped off the Twenty- third street ferry. ie was picked up and taken in an amialance to the New York hospital, where an hour after the stroke he was resting easy. The bishop, who is seventy years old, had hurried over from Philladel- phia to keep an engagement here. He stepped off the hoat and started up the incline at a brisk pace. He was carrying a heavy valise containing sev- eral books and was nearly out to the Street when he suddenly dropped his BISHOP M'CABE. valise, threw his hand to his head, staggered buck and leaned against the will of the ferry house Before any one could reach hips the bishop had fallen to the flsor. He was carried by a policeman Into the ferry house, from which he was 1 iken to the ambulance This Is believed to be the second stroke which the hishop lus suffered De McCabe has wen a4 hish op of the Methodist Eptscopal clinrmeh since ING He was boru at Vihens, 0, Oot 1L 1835. In the civil war be was chap- lain of the Une Hutdrest aud Iweunly- secoud Oblo infantry. He was captured at the battle of Winchester, was In Libby prison four months, then rejoin. ed his regiment. but soon afterward went Into the service of the Christian commission, for which he rajsed large sums. After the war he became pas- tor at Portsmouth, 0, The bishop became known formerly as “Chaplain” McCabe beenuse of his service during the civil war, After the war be acquired a national reputation by his lectures on artay life and his book, “The Sonny Side of Libby Pris- on” ——— SIX DAY BICYCLE RACH. Bobby Walthour aud Partner One Lap Behind. NEW YORK, Dec. 12 —~Thousands of persons were drawn to Madison Square Garden to witness the six day bicycle race, which began widaight Sunday. The most Intere<ling features of the grind were the attempts on the part of BoblLy Waltbour of Atlanta. Qa aud his team mate, John Bedell of Long WANT RESTORATION Plea Made to President om Behalf of Negro Troops STEWART AND MORRIS AT CAPITAL Ravoy af Constitutional League Pre- Bentz Evidences to Excentive Show- i ing, He Asserts, inmeocence i of Colored Soldiers. § al league and 145 of the dismissed ne-| £70 soldiers, and Rev. Dr. Charles 8 Morris, the pastor of the Abyssinian | Baptist church of New York city, are In Washington In the interest of the | battalion of soldiers of the Twenty-| Afth Infantry, colored: who were dis charged “without honor” as a resuft of the shooting affair st Brownsville, | Tex, Mr. Stewart has with him a large Amount of evidence regarding the af. | fray, which he presented to the presi dent through Secretary Loeb. The! president is preparing his answer ta) the senate resolution calling for in-! formation regarding the discharged sol diers ; Mr. Stewart presented to the presl- | dent 172 aMidavits showing, According | to bis story, that within five minut 4 after Major Penrose ordered the welll] to arms” every man of the battalion | answered the roll call “and was under | the direct supervision of the white officers who verified the roil call, mak- ing It Impossible for substitutions ™ that all of the officers and men thought the firing was of mixed arms and that, the fort was being attacked by a cer. fain element in the city which had threatened to drive the colored soldiers out of Brownsville, Mr. Stewart's affidavits, he held, showed that Major Penrose ordered the three companies in a position of defense on the walls of the fort, each company supporting the other, Com- pany C staying on guard all night. He! cofitended that the evidence made it clear that an attempt was being made | to uot only do the soldiers bodily barm, | but, falling in that, an effort was made] to lay the blame upon the soldiers both by shooting up the town and then Ket ting government cartridges and clips from the target practice grounds and scattering them along the streets, He stated that the aMdavits show it would have been Impossible for any | soldler to have got back into the lines | without being seen by the white offi | cers and adds that there were threats | by citizens to shoot colored soldiers after 11 o'clock on the night of the difficulty; that citizens were dressed lu khaki uniform and regulation bat | street that night in two squads, one of four men and one of five The men are asking cougress as the posun witnesses or that the president without prejudice. ————————— Jap Bridegroom Ia Hard Luck. PITTSBURG, Dec. 12 Kuneo Way da, a Japanese medical student at the University of Michigan, and Stella | Jobnsou, a Swedish girl, were married | Island, to make up the deficit of one lap which they Incurred when they doubles! up as a reconstructed team. the bunch, but each time they falled | to make an galn. All the riders are | whlching this pair very closely and | are on the constant alert lest Wal. thour or Bedell gain the coveted lap, Walthour came very nearly fooling the field late last night. when he gain- el almost a lap after a desperate sprint, but unfortunately there was a splll, and, although be was not in It, under the rules he was not allowsd the advantage he bad gained At noon today all the teams had made 1.008 miles except Walthour and Badell, who were one lap behind Paves! Won With Three Weapons, WORCESTER, Mass, Dec 2 Signor Genervso Pavesi, holder of the Richard Fox fencing champlonship belt, Inst night defeated Edwin F Car. son by G2 poluts to 39. Io the first ns saplt, with folls, Pavesi scored 16 to 11. In the second, with sabers he Eained 28 to 13. The thinl assault be was armed with n polgnand agninst | Carson's foll, and in this encounter | Pavesi wou by 17 to 18 Winners at Oukinnd, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 12. Jockey W. Miller had a stroug following at | Oskland and succeeded in putting | three horses to the front The witiners | were Korosllany, Plansible, Metlakat { la, Comllfo, Avonalls and Prestige Frascaelo Won In Mud, LOS ANGELES, Cal. Dec Frascuelo, opening at 30 to 1 and clos- Ing at 6 to 1, won the first race at As | cot. The track war a sea of mad j ah e———— | Republicans Win In Fortemonth, i PORTSMOUTH. N HH. Dee 12. The! Republicans won the city election for | the first time In four vears Wallace | may- | or, defeating Mayor W. M | Marvin, | Democeat, 1.230 14 750. The Repub- Heaus election thelr condidates fn every | ward In the city 9 - Shak Beyond Hape. BERLIN, Dec. 12. An official dis patch. from the German specialist who Is 16 attendusi'e opdn Ihe shah fu Te. fieran ways that the dials condition & Boneless, thongh It te be ‘A this city by an alderman after most | trylug experiences. The couple were | formerly employed in the home of Jo | Thaw, a half brother of Harry K. Thaw, and while seeking a minister in the east end to marry them were Arrested as suspicious characters. but! were released. Wada was a butler tor | the Thaw family until the opening of the university In the fall He came here to wed his former companion in| service. He was boru In Tokyo and is *ald to belong to an aristocratic faidily | iu Japan { —— Ex-Governor Moses Found Dead. BOSTON, Dec 12~Former Govern | or Franklin J. Moses of South Caroling was found dead in bed ut the home of Henry Hamilton in Winthrop, Mass, where he was staying. Gass escaping from a small stove used to heat the room had asphyxiated him. Mr. Moses had lately been ewployed by a fluan | sixty years old Men's fH $1 Boxed the fo Acted as moderator of its town moet | ings. Whether Moses dled a snl Ide or met death accidentally has not been de termined ——— Another Last Hiver Bridge. NEW YORK, Dec. 12 Dacked the Indorsement of the executive com lu Brooklyn, Senator Patrick H. Me Carren announces that plans will at] once be submitted to Mayor McClellan | aad other city officials for the frm. ! medinte building of another bridge | East river adjoluteg the | Brooklyn bridge | Will Divide 830,000,000, CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-The entire for tune of Otto Young, who died recent ly, will be bequeathed ta the seven grandchildren of Mr Young in equal parts after provision has been made for the widow and four daughters The gross amount of the estafe Is eat) | mated at $20.000,000. Charitable be | fuests amounting to between $500 (ax) and $1,000,000 wepe made, YM, C. A. Man Dead of Apoplexy. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y. Dec 12. ~ William R. Southwell, aged fifty-one, who for many vears hind been actively engaged in Young Men's Christian as sociation work In various states, died here of apoplexy "ne Re Wawerne
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