WABHIN i, March 4-In con nection with blishment of Im- migrant stations at Galveston, Tex, New Orleans and Charleston, 8. C., Mr, Bennett of New York presented In the house yesterday a pefition rigned by a distinguished list of American citizens, calling upon the congress of the Unit. od States fo protest against the “per yvorled use of guvernmental functions of which the Russian people are the victims.” The protest recites a list of atrocities asserted to Le practiced Ly the Rus siin government io its “prolonged war- fare against its own people.” The armignment of the Russian gov- ernment Is ua follows: = First—Thonsands of men and wo" men are dragged from thelr homes solely at the discretion or pleasure of local, military and pelice authorities, placed in remote setilements of seml- savages close to and within the polar circle, where the most loathsome dis- eases are chronically epidemic Second. — Hospitals are deliberately fired upon by the regular troops with- out rebuke. Third —The Red Cross is not respect. ed, and the wounded are frequently sisughtered or thrown Into the sea or buried alive with the dead. Fourth.— Women, children, aged and decrepit wen are maimed and killed by sword lashings, torn Ly hayonets and trampled under hoofs of horses, Fifth. Girls aud young women, In- habitants of districts under military protection, are repeatedly given over to violation by officers as well as by or dinary soldlers, Sixth —Tortures are spplled to pris- oners within fortresses and prisous to elicit mformation. Other charges are also made. Among the names attached to the petition are those of Justice Samuel Greenbaum, R. Fulton Cutting. Samuel L. Clemens, Jacob Schiff, Bishop Henry C. Potter, Bdwin BR. IL. Gould, Dr. Lyman Ab- bott, William Jay Schieffelin, New York; Julia Ward Howe, Rev. Charles Gordon Ames, E H. Clement, Boston; Bishop Whittaker, F. Innes Forbes, Philadelphia: HH. D. W. English, Judge Cohen, Bishop Regis Canevin, Chancel- for Holland, Professor Jolin A. Bm- shear, Rev. J. Leonard Levy and Hon. Wiliam 8. Woods, Pittsharg. The following appeal from the Rus- sian famine relief commitice has been sent to members of congress; “A terrible famine, unparalleled In severity ‘and extent, afliicts the people of Russia. Turough the utter failure of their crops millions are starving. The number of the dead and dylug wilF vastly grow unless immediate re- lief Is fomished. In this emergency appeal is made to the humane instincts of the people of the United States in behalf of these stricken fellow beluge. Let the response be prompt and gen “Arrangements are being made by which the money collected by the Rus sian famine relief committer will go as directly as possible to the relief of the suffering without delay or duplica- tion, “Contributions sent to Samuel J. Bar- rows, 185 East Fifteenth street, New York city, will be acknowledged and deposited with-the Morton Trust com- The appeal is signed by Right Rev. Henry ©, Potter, D. D., as president; Samuel J, Barrows, as secretary, and Felix Adler, George Foster Peabody, Nicholas Murray Butler, William Jay Schieffelin, R. Fulton Cutting, Jacol H. Sechiff, J, Plerpont Morgan and many others. The Fifty-niuth congress adjourned at 12 o'clock today, Both houses were in session from sa early hour for the purpose of considering conference re ports and affording the vice president and the speaker an opportunity to sign bDill& The appropriation bills have been practically disposed of, and there was little further legislation of moment, IN THE SENATE. General Deficiency Hill Agreed Teo. Loeh's Salary Flusd WASHINGTON, March 4 — During the recess of the seuate aud house Inst night the conferees on the general le ficiency appropriation Lill agreed upon a final report upon that messore, and +f when the senate reconvenad the report “was presented there anid agresd to without debate. The same action was taken an honr Inter by ile house. "This action hy the two houses concluded the | work of congress on all the approprin tion bills, with the one Exception of the sundry vil BILL The conferees ou the general deficiency bill fixed tse salary of Sevretary Loe at $I aml {Allowed the appropriation of $15.00 to asslet Rennfor Rmoot In pavlug the jexpenses of hix case before the senate 1 The salary of the appraiser of mer Chinese at New York wis fixed at Jowing $145.240 additichal to pay the eapenses of the constitutional conven [tial of Oklahoma was dicdliownd, Senator Halley of Tegis, who has ke PRICE ONE CE NICARAGUAN VICTORY. : Corpus. : WASHINGTON, March 4—An im portant engagement between the forces of Nicarsgua and Houdoras has been reported In a4 cable message from the American consul, Mr. Olivares, at Nicaragua, as follows; “El Corpus, key of position at Tegu cigaipa, has been taken by Nicaragua. Four battalions of Nicaraguans and a strong force of Hondurans were en gaged. Action brilliant.” The American legation at Tegucigak pa, Honduras, has informed the state department that the government of that country has called upon the Sal vadorian minister to get from his gov- ernment a categorical reply to the question whether It Is an ally or ene my of Honduras, A report says that a naval expedi: tion is leaving a gulf port of Honduras to attack Biueflelds. Nicaragua. Indications that at least four of the republics may become Involved have ied the state and navy department offi cials to consider the expediency of In- creasing the American naval force In those waters, and It Is probable that within a few days several other ships will be ordered to re-enforce the Ma: rietta and the Chicago in protecting American interests there MOB THREATENED LYNCHING. Marietta (0.) Jail Surrounded by An- gry Crowd After Fake Artists. MARIETTA, O., March 4 —Walter WW. Savage of Syracuse, N. Y.. and An- dy Corothers, charged with drugging apd assaulting six small girls last night, narrowly escaped violence at the hands of a large crowd that for a time surrounded the jall. Ravage is an advertising sketch artist and has been here about a~week. occu- pying a window In the Dime Savings society building. He &as made a specialty of getting young girls to al- low him to make their pictures, During the afterncofi be had six girls between the ages of twelve and four teen years of age In his roows. He gave them whisky, wine and beer, in which he administered some kind of drug. Tbe police found the girls In the room unconscious. Both men and the six girls were taken to the city nll Under guard of the sutire police force the men were rushed to the coun ty Jalil, which is on the Afth ficor of the courthouse building, The sheriff and deputies, assisted by the police, are guanding the (wo pris- oners against a lynching that was threatened by the entire populace, ARCHIE ROOSEVELT ILL. President's Young Son Has Digph- theria—isclated In White House. WASHINGTON, March 4. —President Roosevelt's young som, Archie, has diphtheria, but it Is sald he is not se riously lll. The patient has been Iso lated In the southeast room of the White House, and a strict quarantine is belng maintained. Surgeon Genera] Rixey, the presi dent's physician, sald that he was first called In to see Archie last Friday. Dr. Rixey at once began the use of anti- toxin and sent for a trained nurse, He has assured the president and Mrs. Roosevelt that their son Is not seriously Ul and that there is vo oc caslon for alarm, Archie was In schoo! last week until the day he was taken fi. Actor Jumped to Death, CHESTER, Pa., March 4.—Ip-an ef- fort to escape being burned to death John Couly, a comedian of “The Vani. ty Fair” company, was instantly kill od by jumping from a window of the Arcade hotel, where the theagrical com- pany wae stoppiug. The flawes broke out on the first door of the bullding and cut off the escape of all the mem bers of the company, Firemen rescued all the occupants of the hotel except Conly, who seemed to have lost his presence of mind and jumped from a third story window desplle the warm ings of the Bremen. Mrs. Watson, also a member of the company, wis severe ly burned. She Is in a hospital in a serious conditicn. The loss 1s §15,000. Allentown V Dead. ALLENTOWN, Pa, March 4.-—Wil lam H. Sowden, Who refresented the Tenth Penusylvania district [nthe Forty-ninth and Fiftleth congresses, | died last night at his home here from dropsy and heart disease. He was sixty-three years of age and a graduate of the Harvard Law school. He served 8s a corporal in the clvil war nud was wounded at Antietam. Mr. Sowden wis a delegate to the Democratic na tional conventions in 18M), 1884 and 1006, He was defeated In I8SS be cause, it is sald, of his protective tarift views, Furlong to Be Electrocuted. OSSINING, N. Y, March 4--Frank/| Furlong will be electrocuted today inf the death Louse at the Sing Sing pris | ou. Furlong, who has not yet attaine || bix majority, has been two years fu the death house. His crime was committe! on Nov, 20, 14, when be mnnlered his aunt, Mrs. Margaret Keeler, at ber home in New York city Frefessor Landfield Marries Princess CANNES, France, March 4. Jerome fi Landfeld. professor of history at the University of Californias, und Prin cess Lipba Lobanoff Rostovsky were married at the Russinu church here in the pressice of a distingnished assem blage of Russians dnd Americans STREETERS REPLY. Legal Adviser of Mra Eddy Issues Statement. OLD PERSECUTION KEVIVED, HE SAYS Declares Aged Head of Christian Seientisia’ Clearness of Mind and Resolute Parpose Not impairs ed by Advancing Years CONCORD, N. IL, March 4. —Gener al Frank 8. Streeter, the legal adviser of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, bas Is sued a long statement in the nature of a reply to various allegations in the Lill of equity which bas been brought agiiast trustees amd directors of the Christian Sclence church by relatives of Mrs Eddy with the siew of obtain ing an accounting of fumls= The statement is as follows: “Early Saturday ™wming [ sent tc Mrs. Eddy a copy of the Lill in equity as published, bul not yet served upon any of the defendants, so far as [ am informed. 1 have sitice had a jong per sonal cofference with ber, st which this proceeding and matters connect ed therewith were fully discussed. “In common with ber wany fricods she belleves that the juitiative in these procesdings was uot taken by ber son or other relatives, but by others whe in 8 markedly unusual manver and by nique methods are umdertaking on der the gulse of court proceedisgs (© continne the persecution begun some tine ago, “From my conferences with her at the time and on other recent occasions [ am able to speak definitely and posi tively, Her clearness of mind and resoluteness of purpose has been In no respect Impaired by her advanced years, Her capacity to think clearly and fo deal accurately and justly with iraportant business affalrs has never been more perfectly demonstrated than in her conferefices and acts In the last two weeks and In numerous husiness letters ia her own handwriting which I have received from her during that time “The amount of Mrs. Eddy's prop erty has been grossly multiplied by rumor and unfounded report. She is not possessed of large wealth as the term 15 used. Mrs. Eddy receives no income from the church nor from the publication society comnected with the chtirch. Her sole income for many years has been from the copyright on her own books, gnd the amount from this source has been overe<thinated “Mrs, Eddy's business affairs have been managed by herself, with the ald of Mr. Frye, her devoted and loyal servant, aud under the oversight and personal audit of another gentleman whose pame bas nol been mentioned, but who stands for all that is honors ble and of good repute In nancial ele cles In Conconl. Accurate accounts of all her property and Investments as well as her annual Income nnd expend! tures have Leen carefully kept and frequently audited The last audit was in October, 1108. None of the de fendants named, except Mr. Frye, have any connection with the management of her property or Investments or have any knowledge whatever iu referetice thereto, nor bave nuy of the sald de fendants ever received any property of Mrs. Eddy which they bold in trust or otherwise, except In one instance, for the benefit of a relation “Inquiry has been made whether the various defendants would mccept serv. ice of proceedings. 1 cannot say as to that. With wy partner, Mr. Allen Hol lig, I am counsel for Mrs, Eddy alone. While the defendants would undoubt- odly be guided largely by Mrs. Eddy's wishes with respect to these proceed: ings, I cannot as her legal representa tive undertake to speak for them “With reference to the report that within a few days Mrs. Eddy bas placed in the hands of trustees a large amount of money to be held and used for the benefit of her sou and her grandchildren, I have nothing to say. “Whatever Mrs. Eddy may or may not have done toward providing for her family is a matter which ought aot. for the present at least, to be discussed hy me “It 1a obvious that I ought not to talk about the legal aspect of the case nor what will be the course of the pro- vesdliugs so far as Mrs. Eddy is con erned. The proceedings are unusual Sa far as this case can be considered t legitimate procesding In equity, it seems to be an attempt to have the personal rights and privileges of a itizen adjudicated In a way upprece tented In New Hampshire, so far ss | ti aware, and If it shall appear that these proceedings have heen instituted for purposes other thau the ascertain ment and protection of the plaintiffs legal rights the method of dealing with such a case will be carefully conslder od by Mrs. Eddy's counsel before mak ing any public statement” A report savy that Rev. Irving © Pomlinson, one of the defendants nam. Jd In the sult, lax left Concord for Deadwood, SD, his mission being to leliver to Mr. Glover a deed of trust for mn certain sum of money varlously catimated at from ST en fo $250 000, This money 1 th be delivered to Mr Hower un three conditions, as follows Virst, that neither he nor his house hold should make any further demands pon Mrs. Eddy: second. that they hottld offer no olifections to the pro tating of any will that might he of fered after her death; third, that they should uot seek Ly any legal proceed ug to set Astle any gifts, deeds or ronveyances that Mrs Eddy might make during her lfetine Irish Member af Parliament Dead. AVRRPOOT March 4 —PDotnl Su) ¥ 3 RACING AT NEW ORLEANS, Pasadena Purnishes a Surprise - Winning Hallway Hasdieap. NEW ORLEANS, March 4 Pasade | na, at 13 to 1, won the New Orleans] Rallway handicap the feature of the eard at the Falr grounds. Tilelng, the! favorite, was off In front. Lut after] making the early pace dropped back, | beaten, and Pasadena. taking com. mand, wou easily from The English | man. i The fifth race, the secondary feature, | went to Keator, with Besteriing se« ond. Hefined, the favorite in the first] race, bad things his own way after the) first quarter. winning by two lengths from Bertmont, the second choice The winners: First Race — Refined. first; Bertinont second; Excitement, thind Second Race —Baleshed, Arst ginbotham, second; Veribast, thind Third Race Tinker. first; Larsen, second; Kuiserhoff third Fourth Race —Pasadena. frst: The Englishman, secoud: Lady Navarre | third Fifth Hace. —Keator, first: Besterling | second: Granada, thind, Sixth Race -Huntington, first: Young. second; Little Elkin. third Seventh Race. Gauze, first: Heslde, second; Fonsoluca, third Girnce Dr Columbia Tied For First Place. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March 4 —The Columbia basket ball team by defeat ing Harvard last night by a score of 19 to 10 tied Yale for first place lu the intercollegiate championship Colum bia outclassed Harvard from the start Towne Defeats Durnan. SYDNEY, N 8 W_ March 4 —-George Towns, the Australian sculler, defeated Edward Durnan of Canada by three tenigths for the scalling championship of the world. The race took place on the Nepean river and was for $2500 a side, Tigers Beat Cornell. PRINCETON, NJ. March 4 Princeton pulled out of last place In the Intercollegiate Basket Ball league bere by defeating Cornell in the flual game of the seasou by a score of 3) ta 18 Glants® First Victory of 1807, LOS ANGELES sl March 4. I'he New York Natiotials yesterday de fesited the Angeles baseball team ina practice game by a score of 5 0 3 Los Yale Defeated nt Traps NEW YORK, March 4 Yale's shooters were defeated at the traps by the Crescent Atliletic elub of New York by a margin of 62 points Tennis Challenge 16 FagTaud, NEW YORK. March 4—The United States Lawn Tennix associntion has cabled a challenge to England for the Dwight F. Davis trophy X. L. N. C. Wins ou fee NEW YORK, March 4 Ienry 8S Terhune's jeeboat, the NX. LL N.C, won the first race for the Baan! of Trade cup ———— Henry Vandyke Resigns. PRINCETON, N. J. March 4.— Hen: ry Vandyke, D. D., LL. D. the emi nent poet and author who has held the Murray professorship of English lit erature In Princeton university for eight years, will resign on March 14 The reason for Dr. Vandyke's resigna tion is that he might devote his time with complete freedom to active lit- erary pursuits He Is now at Harvard university delivering an annual course of lectures. On March 16 he will sal) for the Holy Land, where he will spend two months, after which he will re turn to Princeton, where be will con tinue to live Seantor Spooner Heslgna, WASHINGTON, March 4-John C Spooner of Wisconsin has sent his res Ignation as United States senator to the governor of Wisconsin, to take ef fect May 1, 197, He resigns to re sume the practice of law. On lwing Infortved of Senator Spoouner's resig nation the president made the follow lug statement: “I eanuot satliciently express my regret at Senator Spoouer's resignation. We lose one of the ablest, most efficient, wost fearless and wost upright public servants that the ua tion has" allan Mountain Movieg. NAPLES, March 4 The mounlnin in the province of Potenza, near Monte murro, which Is sHpping lito the ley, began again morning to move after having remalued gal escent all Satunlay nlght. The roaring of the arnlanches was heard for a considerable distance, Trees were up rooted, and the whole devastated, Five thousand persons are homeless, and the scene is one of des olation. It Is feared that the village will be coversd over vil yesterday country was whole Four Miners Killed, SCRANTON, "a, March 4 Four miners were Killed and eight Injured by an explosion of gas in the Holden colllery of the Delawnre, Lackawanna and Western company at Taylor, near Scranton. News of the disaster cans ml consternation among the relatives uf the entombed miners, who mn in crowds to the mouth of the shaft, A rescuing party was quickly formed, ated In nn short time all the men were brought to the surface, several black: eid and badly scorched, Each Get $282,770 Prom Wileox. PHILADELPHIA, March 4--By vir tue of a special arrangement with Da vid Wilcox, president of the Delaware and Huds compsuy, the National Association of Audubon Racletles nnd the Tuskegee [nstitute have Just come Into possession of $2770.89) each, Explosion In New Jersey Shakes Whole District. KILLED TWO; DAMAGED FIFTY HOMES Peanaylvania Tunnel Dynamite Magazine Goes Skyward at Midanight—-Watchman Sup- posed Blown to Pleces HOMESTEAD, N. J, March 4A dynamite explosion here at midnight llled two persons, Injured at Contractor's feast the village and shook towns and cities within & radius of ten miles The dynamite was the property of Bradley & Son, contractors. who are building the Jersey end of the Pennsyl it was stored fii a one story structure 23 by 40 feet In dimensions and located gang of seventy-five men ployed In excavating The and watchman are misslug and supposed to be dead Twelve persons were removed to hospitals, nod others It Is thought, were injured The plaat of the contractors was wrecked, 400 houses lost their win dows, while a half dozen homes and Gevernaud's silk factory wise damaged The New Jersey end of the bore was the scene of the explosion Several who escaped with thelr lives are badly maimed. + The explosion, which shook and shat. tered small houses for several miles around. was heard throughout New York and even Brooklyn and Coney Island. Persons all over the country were awakened, and many rushed to the street, thinking there had Ixven an earthquake Several thousand pounds of explo siyes were stored lu a number of frame Lulldings called the magazine Meu were engaged In removing the powder and dynamite to be used to day lo blasting operations in the tun nel Some two hundred pounds of powder bad been plac ed in a plle pear one of the bulldings when the explo sion suddenly occurred It Is suppos el that a spark from some careless workwaun's pipe fell into some powder that bad leaked from one of the cans Fhe explosion of the puwder caused the dynamite to explode. aud in an in stant all the magazines had gone up with a roar like that of a volcano Some of the workmen, after regain Ing thelr feet, rushed for the nearest telephone aud informed all the sur munding towns Ambulances were sent from the North Hudson hospital In Union HUL Christ hospital In Jersey City and the Willlam Neckar private hospital, y The explosion had awakened every body In these places, and the police were ready to move as soon as they learned where they were needed Scarcely a house in Homestead or in any of the Jersey towns bas a whole pane of glass. In some cases people were thrown out of bed. and the streets were soon filled with many who were afraid that an earthquake bad occurred : George Johnson, & watchman, is sup- posed to have been Llown to pieces. He is known to have been ou duty Just before the explosion, Later the ouly truce found of him was his bat, which was picked up from the rulus of the small tool buildings that were ley- eled. Maudak, another watchman, was hurled a distance of a hundred feet The Maberti family occupied a small frame house about 330 feet from the maguzine. Their home fell in upon them, and four of the familly were sc rlously Injured. ‘The power house and adjoining small bulldings were destroyed aud the win dows of practically all the houses In Homestead and Union HII blown In Just bow much dynamite was stored in the wagazine way be determined in the official Investigation. Superintend cut James McMahon of the contract ing frm was arrested charged with having in storage a greater quantity of explosives than legally kept in one place, It was reported that the bullding held four tons of dynamite There were two or more explosions, and they tore a hole eight feet deep aud twenty four feet across in the mek were &mn engineer are were other an be Twenty-five Uvercome by Las SMITHFIELD, R. I, March 4 I'wenty men and five women overcome by cual gas In a boanding house vonuected with the Beruon oot ton mills In the village of Georgiaville and, while nearly all were eventually resuscitated, it is feared that in cises fatal results may follow The most critical are John Dolan tnd Otls Patt, who were employed In Georglaville by the Providence company, They rallied slightly, again became unconscions wore two CANeS low but McCormick Staria For Home, PARIS, March 4. There was a fare well dewonstration at the railway sta tion here when Mr. MoCormick, the retiring American ambassador, started for London on his way to the United States, M. Pichon, the minister of forelgn affuirs, and his diplomatic col leagues and mnny Americans and other persons prominent fn the social Hie of P'sris were present to bid Mr. Moor mick farewell Chamberinin Takes n Haollday LONDON, March 4 Joseph Cham berlaln and Mee Chamberlain, who left Birmingham for a bolkday on the Riviera, crossed from Dover to Os als yesterday despite the dense fog that has overhung tie chavnel for threw days, causing much delay to the 6l services and tiany wioor we ADVANCE SHO of NEW SPRING DRESS GOODS Taffeta Checks The new Wool Taffetas are here for your inspection. It's a new cloth this season and very popular in the city. Washes and retains both color and finish Greys, Mixtures Invisible Checks Ve have many kinds, from the Prices 56 inch double fold, as follows ie, She, he, 3100 $121, Bear in mind our prices are as lo as clly stores and styles fresh from the maker, - = manufacturers only Black Panamas in. Chiffon finish, worth $1.75. 31.35 3 Chiffon finish, worth $150, special $1.12%% in. excellent value worth $1.50, excellent value, worth § side; i in 38 in Fhe, Many of the above nombers in colors. Newest in Black Voiles Uistinakly different (in weaves this and prettier than ever ~~ colors obtained 'Y Spriaz Samples of juest Our Embroideries Are than last season and the much larger. If you ire looking for (he daintiest creations 00k us over. Another lot last week that you have not seen True Shadows, Exelet. Baby Irish, Ralsed Work, ele, in gets to match, at prices to please EYery purse - ww prettier assortment — Special Inducement This week we will give with every corset sold at §1 or over, one pair of Yale Seamless Hose, or any other 25¢ hose on our shelves. Nearly 50 mod- to from. We can pleases els select you Globe Warehouse Talmadge Block, Elmer Avenue Valley Phone. HUNTING or a plumber who will do your work just right You can stop right here. Send for us and we will respond promptly and do your work qulck- ly For a Plumber to slight or loiter over his work we decided- ly poor policy. So all our work Is of the hurry-up order, but with- out slighting. In fact the only part we are care- less about Is the bill We have got (nto the habit of not charging enough, so other plumbers say. ? H R. TALMADGE, Both Phones consider ” Sour Stomach No appetite, loss of stre oass, headache, constipation, genaral debility, sour risings, of the stomach are all dus to Kodel relieves Indigestion. 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