ILLINOIS HAS RACE WOT
' Colored Mao Lynched for Assaulting
Former's Daughter.
THE WHITES SHOOT MANY BLACKS.
Jk Rail Wat Made for a Colony of Several
Hna'reo' Nef rota, Employed on Bridge Coo
Btractioa Work and Living la Teoli Near
the Bridge The Negroea Saw Ibe Mob Coir.
lag aad Opeaed Fire.
Thebes, III. (Special). An unknown
colored man, about 17 years old, was
lynched by a mob of angry farmers near
the village of Santa Fe for attempting to
'assault the 10-ycar-old daughter of
Farmer Branson Iavis.
This was followed by a general on
slaught on a colony of colored people liv
ing in tents, who were engaged in bridge
construction. The tents were burned
.'and many were shot, but so far as known
'(tone was killed. Hundreds of shots
were exchanged, but no whites were
'hvrt.
Branson Davis lives a half mile east of
Santa Ke, a village near Thebes. While
liii 10-year-old daughter was in the barn
vard the man accosted her. She ran, but
he seized her and her screams brought
lire mother to the rescue. The man tied.
Officers were notified and were soon in
pursuit. News of the assault speedily
rpread among the neighboring farmers,
and resulted in an angry mob starting in
search of the assailant.
The colored man meanwhile had been
captured by officers and was being taken
o Santa Fe when the mob of farmers
was met. A fight followed, during which
'the farmers secured the man. He con
fessed the crime, but begged for mercy.
Without a word the mob started with
the man toward the new bridge being
constructed across the Mississippi, where
lie was hanged to an oak tree without
ceremony or delay. After the body had
dangled in the air a few moments it was
riddled with bullets.
The officers tried to disperse the mob
trot their efforts were useless.
A rush was made for a colony of sev
eral hundred colored people employed on
ibridge construction work and living in
tents near the bridge. They saw the mob
coming and opened fire. A fusillade fol
lowed and the whites fired w ith effect, as
many of the colored people were shot
flown. Jt is not known how seriously
they were wounded.
The mob pressed forward, notwith
standing the steady fire, until the colored
people turned and fled toward a nearby
wood, taking their wounded with them.
The mob then burned the tents. After
accomplishing a general work of destruc
tion, the, whites dispersed.
Extra police were sworn in and the
village is under heavy guard. Excite
ment is intense.
Santa Fe is a village in the extreme
southwestern portion of Illinois, near the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad.
SECRETARY HAY WILL PROTEST.
Stasia's Orip on Manchuria Violates Pledget
Foreign Criticism.
Washington, D. C. (Special). It is
probable that the United States Gov
ernment will make a vigorous protest,
through the proper diplomatic channels,
?igainst Russia's demand upon China
or the pratical retention by Russia of
the Province of Manchuria. Secretary
(Hay will first consult the President.
It is scarcely possible that the Unit
ed States would join with any other
Jiower in forcible action against Rus
ia, but the State Department will for
ward to the Russian Foreign Office,
fit the proper time, a plain statement of
the sentiments of this Government in
the matter.
It is pointed out that the text of Rus
ia't demand is so diplomatically word
ed that it may mean much or little, as
Russia may sec fit to interpret it or
iut it into effect.
At the State Department this step
hf the Czar's country is regarded as a
direct breach of faith and an attack
upon the American policy of maintain
ing the integrity of China which was
announced more than two years ago.
Whltecapt Whip Olrls.
Bloomington, Ind. (Special). Thir-Jy-eight
unmasked men broke into a
t.ouse here and whitecapped Misses Rc
tweca and Ida Stephens, white, aged 18
fcnd 16 years, and also whipped Joe
(Oniveiy, a negro, aged 50 years. 1 lie
Stephens girls lived with their mother
n the same house in which Shivelv had
a room. The negro was whipped with
ft barbed wire and was hit in the eye
with brass knuckles. The older girl
was whipped with barbed wire and the
youngcr one with apple switches, but
neither is dangerously injured. Many
i trie whitecaps were recognized and
warrants will be sworn out for their 1
irrebts.
New Warship's First Dip.
Philadelphia, Pa. (Special). The ar
mored cruiser Colorado was launched
fct Cramp's shipyard in this city in the ;
giresence of a distinguished gathering 1
of officials from Washington and the !
State of Colorado, including the entire
congressional delegation. Miss Cora
'Way Pcabody, daughter of Governor 1
1'eabody of Colorado, broke the hot- i
tie of wine on the prow of the cruiser I
as she glided down the ways at 1:35
into the Delaware river.
U Jews Killed by Rioters.
St Petersburg (By Cable). Twenty
five Jewt were killed and 275 wounded,
snany of them fatally, during I lie anti
Semitic riots at Kishineff, capital of
Bessarabia, on April 30, when a num
ber of workmen organized an attack on
the Jewish inhabitants. The Minister
of the Interior has ordered the adop
tion of special measures to restore or
cr in the town and district.
Slaogb'-tred Bttbl-Biiouks.
Vienna (By Cable). Dispatches from
Sofia, Bulgaria, announce that a band of
Macedonians recently surrounded and
slaughtered forty Bashi-Bazouks and
fifteen gendarmes near Petritch, Mace
donia, out of revenge for the murder of
their leader. Captain Sacff, who was re
cently killed in an engagement in the dis.
trict of Melnik. The band subsequently
captured the district chief of Petritch
nd twenty 6 ve soldiers, whom they
stripped and released.
W. K. Vtsdcrbilt Married Agsla.
London (By Cable). William K.
Vanderl ilt, Sr., and Mrs. Anna Ruth
erford, widow of the late Morris Ruth
erford, were married here at the Church
tf St. Mark, on North Audley ttreet
The Kev. Robert Henry Harden, vicar
of St. Mark't, performed the ceremony.
Tbit wat Mr. Vanderbilt't second
marriage, and hit bride has been twice
at widow. The bridal party consisted of
74 1. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Kirtherfurd,
Henry White, secretary of the United
.States Embassy; Winfield Hoyt, of New
York and the Duke and Ditches of
MaxUborough.
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic
United States Senator Beveridge,
who visited Manchuria two years ago.
says that Russia then had 150,000
troops within three weeks' striking dis
tance of Japan, and that by this time
her army there had probably been in
creased to 175.000 men.
The Philadelphia carpenters' unions
have rejected the compromise offered
by the master carpenter relative to the
new wage scale, to go into effect May
1. If n strike is ordered 15,000 men will
stop work.
Fire at Benson, N. C. caused the de
struction of 15 stores and an estimate
aggregated loss of $-5,000.
Jeremiah Baxter has resigned the
presidency of the Tennessee Central
Railroad.
The testimony in the trial of James
Howard at Frankfort, Ky was com
pleted and the jury viewed the scene of
the killing of Governor Gocbcl, on the
capitol grounds.
There was a mutiny on board the
American ship Edward Sewall at Woo
sung, China, which was suppressed by
marines trom the battleship Oregon.
Mrs. Elizabeth Budd Gallaudct, wi
dow of Rev. Dr. Gallaudct, died at her
home, in New York.
Inspector McClusky. of New York,
had Tomaso Petto arraigned on the
charge of killing Madonia, whose mur
dered body was found in a barrel.
John F. Martin, formerly ot Phila
delphia, who was supposed to be dead,
has turned up in San Jose, Cal., alter
an absence of 30 years.
President Baer. of the Philadclnhia
and Reading Coal Company and the
Philadelphia and Readme Railroad, tes
tified before the Interstate Commerce
Commission in the matter of the charge
of the existence of an illegal combina
tion. A preliminary injunction wa secured
in Lancaster, Pa., to restrain William C.
Liller, who claims to be an adjutant of
the Association of Spanish-American
War Veterans, from exercising the func
tions of that office.
Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan
sailed for Europe on the steamer Cedric.
Several detectives accompanied them.
An aged Advcntist uttered a warning
just before the ship sailed.
Friends in New York of Princess
Craykowski, formerly a ward of Senator
Dept-w, have been informed that she is a
prisoner in Constantinople with her hus
b:.nd. President Roosevelt made an address
at the laying of the cornerstone of the
new gate at the northern entrance to
Yellowstone Park, after which he re
sumed his tour.
Judge Grosscup, in the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals, entered an
order enjoining six railroad companies
from discriminating against small ship
pers. Mrs. Jennie Flood was arrested in
Grand Rapids, Mich., on the charge of
killing John London to get the insurance
money.
Tlic strike of the iron workers em
ployed by the American Bridge Com
pany was officially declared off.
The National Municipal League, in
session in Detroit, elected officers, and
then papers were read on the munici
pal situation in various cities and in
the Philippines.
President Roosevelt's vacation is
ended, and he returned to Cinnabar
much benefited in health. He and Mr.
Burroughs were tripped by skis, but
neither was injured.
Internal revenue inspectors made a
raid on a moonshine plant in Mount
Vernon, N. Y., and captured the plant,
but the moonshiners escaped.
Roland L. Morgan, of Elgin, 111.,
died suddenly at his winter home, in
Pcnsacola, Fla.. after eating some pre
pared food sent him by mail.
Judge Adams, of the United States
District Court in St. Louis, refused to
extend the benefits of the Bankruptcy
Law to a bucketshop.
Andrew Carnegie has given $600,000
to Tuskegee Institute. In his letter he
gives unstinted praise to Booker T.
Washington.
Fcrelgo.
Russian government officials declare
the United States has been misled by
Japan concerning Manchuria, and that
the improvements in progress in Man
churia will certainly benefit internation
al commerce.
The consuls at Tetuan and Centa,
Morocco, have warned the foreign resi
dents to be ready to leave at a mo
ment's notice, owing to the pretender's
threats of attack.
The Prince of Wales unveiled in St.
James' Park, London, a statue erected
in memory of the marines recently kill
ed in South Africa and China.
The British Parliament will appropri
ate $300,000 for the proper representa
tion of Great Britain at the St. Louis
Exposition,
A committee of Nationalist mcmliers
"f the British House of Commons, with
John Redmond chairman, was appointed
to draft amendments to the Irish Land
Bill.
1 lie German government officials ex
plained in the Reichstag the facts in con
nection with the killing of an artillcry
ir.:. n named llartmanii by Naval Cadet
1 It'scmr.
The First Chamber of the States Gen
eral of the Netherlands adopted the
tre:itv of arbitration between Holland
and Venezuela.
Disturbances continue in connection
with the expulsion of the members of
the religious orders from France.
The British royal commission for the
St. Louis Exposition was announced.
Viscount Peel is chairman.
Four nun were killed by an explosion
in the Dominion Coal Reserve Mine, at
Sydney. B. C.
Macedonians recently massacred 40
Bashihazouks and 15 gendarmes near
Petritch, Macedonia.
The governments of Prussia and
Mecklenburg have decided to expel the
Mormon missionaries. '
Financial
Silver is dearer.
Bank of England retains its 4 per
cent. rate.
The English grain duty has been
abolished.
United Copper's output for April
will be upwards of ,1,000,000 pounds.
New York banks have gained on the
Suhtreasury since Friday $.1,155,000.
There is a truce in the Keene-Harri-man
conflict, but not a settlement.
Congressman Tawney says: "The
West is in good shape financially and
industrially.
Crucible Steel hat declared the usual
quarterly dividend of I 3-4 per cent, on
the preferred.
The British Government has decided
to reduce the income tax from 1 shill
ing 4 pence to 1 shilling on the ground,
I'ennsy'a net earningt'for March are
likely to show a decrease, although the
fiross earnings were much larger than
ast year.
Chicago Northwest Railroad's earn
ings for March were $1,449,368, an in
crease over the previous March of
$075. 'OS. or more than aj per cent,
hur the ten months of the fiscal year
the increase is about 6 per cent. This
sr extremely good iliowu'i.
MANY BRITISH KILLED
Somalis Annihilated a Column of King
Edward's Troops.
,
ONLY 37 NATIVE SOLDIERS ESCAPE.
Col. Plunkett, Nine Junior Officers tod 174
Privates Misting Reconnoitring When
Surrounded and Cut Down Mala Body
L'nder Col. Cobbe It Also Threatened Qeo.
Manning has Started to Extricate Them.
Aden, Arabia (By Cable). The Brit
ish transport Hardingc arrived here
from Bcreba, the capital of Somaliland,
East Africa, and reports a British de
feat in Somaliland.
The officers of the Hardingc say that
10 officers and 174 men out of a total
British force of 221 men were killed re
cently in an engagement with the So
malis. London (By Cable). The War Of
fice received from Brigadier General
Manning, in command of the British
forces in Somaliland. a dispatch dated
20 miles westward of Galadi, Somali
land, as follows:
"I regret to report that a flying col
umn' under the command of Colonel
Cobbe. which left Galadi on April 10.
to reconnoitre the road to Walwal, had
a serious check on April 17.
"On the morning of April 17, Col
onel Cobbe was at Gumburru, 40 miles
westward of Galadi, and had decided to
return to Galadi, owing to serious dif
ficulty in finding the road to Walwal
and to the shortness of water. He was
about to leave his zarcba (protected
ramp), when firing was heard in the
direction of a small party, under the
command of Captain Olivcy. which had
been sent in a westerly direction to
reconnoitre.
"At 9.15 o'clock in the morning
Colonel Cobbe dispatched Colonel
Plunkett. with 160 men of the Second
Battalion of the King's African Rifles,
48 of the Second Sikhs and two Maxim
guns for the extrication of Captain
Olivey, if necessary. As a matter of
fact, Captain Olivey had not been en
gaged. "Colonel Plunkett. on joining the de
tachment, continued to push on. At
II-4S o'clock Colonel Cobbe heard a
heavy fire in the direction taken by
Plunkett. and at about 1 o'clock in the
afternoon a few fugitives coming in re
ported that Colonel Plunkett had been
defeated, with loss.
The news has been fully corrobo
rated since, and I have to report the
total loss of Colonel Plunkett's party,
with the exception of 37 Yaos, who
have arrived here.
"The latest information extracted
from the fugitives is to the effect that
Colonel Plunkett pushed on after ,the
enemy's force to the open country
seven miles westward of Gumburru,
where he was attacked by a very strong
force of mounted troops and the ene
my's infantry, who attacked at close
quarters.
"He kept back the enemy until he
had no more ammunition, when he
formed a square and charged with bay
onets in the direction of Colonel
Cobbe' s zareba. He moved some dis
tance in this manner but a great many
men, including Colonel Plunkett him
self, were killed or wounded by the
pursuing enemy.
"At last the enemy's infantry over
whelmed the square and annihilated
them all, with the exception of the 37
fugitives above mentioned."
British Deleat Mad Mullah.
Aden, Arabia (By Cable). Brigadier
General Manning, after an engagement
with the Mad Mullah's forces, has re
lieved Colonel Cobbe, near Gumburru,
Somaliland, 45 miles westward of Gal
adi. About 2000 of the Mullah's men
were killed. The British loss is not
known.
The few details obtainable of the dis
aster to Colonel Plunkett's detachment.
April 17, .show the Mullah's forces con
sisted of jooo horsemen and 10,000
spearmen. They surrounded Colonel
Plunkett's force in the open and the
Somalis. after a heavy rifle fire, charged
repeatedly with their horsemen and
spearmen on all sides. The British de
tachment held out until its ammunition
was exhausted, and then charged with
the bayonet, but it was ultimately over
whelmed by weight of numbers. The
British force fought until all its officers
and 170 men were killed. Most of the
handful of men who reached the camp
were wounded. The Somalis' losses
are reported to have been enormous.
The Mullah's forces utq reported to
aggregate from 3000 to 4000 mounted
men and about 80.000 spearmen.
Lives Lott In Explosion?
Minneapolis, Minn, (Special). The
Northwestern Star Oil Company's
plant, in the milling district, blew up a
lew minutes before 12 o'clock. The
phut was annihilated, and it is believed
many lives have been lost. There were
.'O employees, and thus far but 11 have
been accounted for. The explosion was
terrific, spreading burning oil over all
nearby buildings and causing a shock
that was ft it over the northern portion
of the city.
Judge's Novel Decision.
Mount Vernon, Ky. Special). In
the examining trial of Charles Durham,
who killed John Lawson Monday,
Judge Lewis rendered the following de
cision: "The prisoner is dismissed.
Lawson committed suicide in going
with his gun to Durham's home on the
hunt for trouble." Lawson had sent to
Durham that he was coming for blood
and to look out for him. Durham
looked.
To Establish Cable Station.
Honolulu (Special). The steamship
Hanalei, which has been chartered by
the Commercial Pacific Cable Company,
sailed from Honolulu with operating
staff, builders, builders' materials and
electrical apparatus for Midway and
Guam. Midway is an uninhabited island
in the Pacific which the government se
lected as a station for the Pacific cable.
The vessel departed amid cheers from a
large assemblage, strains 0 music from
the government band and the salutes of
every vessel in port.
Poltoa la lbs Food.
Pcnsacola, Fla. (Special). Roland
L. Morgan, of Elgin, III., died suddenly
.at. his country home six miles (rout
this place. He received a package of
prepared food by mail, and within 15
minutes after eating it waa dead. His
mother and wife escaped. They only
tasted the contents of the package. The
food wat in an original package
wrapped in white paper. The postmark
it too indistinct to give the officers any
clue at to the place whence it wai
mailed.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
The Papers Shown tor Inspection.
The two latest important developments
in the investigation of the sensational
abstraction of papers from the safe of
the office of the assistant attorney gen
eral for the Postofficc Department, which
led to the dismissal of that official, 'Were
the submission of what purported to be
the papers to the inspection of the postal
officials, and the decision of Postmaster
General Payne to immediately relieve
Acting Assistant Attorney General G. A.
C. Christiancy from his office, pending
an investigation of his conduct. The
action in the case of Mr. Christiancy was
taken nt his cwn request. He states that
he courts the fullest investigation. Mr.
Christiancy has held the office of assist
ant attorney since January I. loot, and
has been in charge of the legal affairs of
the department most of the time since
then, owing to General Tyncr's absence,
caused by ill health. .
General Tyncr's counsel submitted to
Postmaster General Payne and Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Bristow
papers which they said the Tyncrs
claimed constituted all that had "been
taken away, but a statement made later
by the Postmaster General reciting the
correspondence on the subect and the
submission of the papew specifically de
clines to accept the statement that the
papers submitted necessarily constituted
all that were abstracted.
Mr. Payne had addressed a letter to
them declining to consider a proposition
to either visit personally or send a repre
sentative to visit the'Tyncr residence,
but said he would receive the attorneys
at the department and look at any papers
they might choose to submit. Accord
ingly, at noon the attorneys brought an
immense bundle of papers to the private
office of the Postmaster General. There
Mr. Payne and Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow, who has charge
of the investigation examined them.
General Tyncr's counsel after leaving
the Postmaster General made a state
ment in part as follows :
"In response to a notification from the
Department of Justice that General
Tyncr's offer to deliver the papers should
be made to the Postmaster General, Mr.
Perry proposed to the Postmaster Gen
eral that a representative of the Post
office Department should meet counsel at
General Tyner's house, where the papers
snoum De examined and such as were
private returned to General Tyner and
the others, somewhat public in nature,
delivered to the department."
Von Hollebeo't Letters of Recall.
Secretary Hay received from Baron
Speck von Sternberg, the German am
bassador, the formal letters of recall of
I err von Holleben as ambassador to the
United States. Customarily foreign
envoys upon their retirement from a post
have their letters at the Foreign Office,
but Yon Hollchcn's departure from
Washington was hurried, anil because of
his illness at the time his letters have
been forwarded. Two letters were pre
sented one for the President and one
for the Secretary of State. They arc
dated Heidelberg, April I.
In Ibe Departments.
The refunding operations of the
United States Treasury Department
passed the fifty million point, the total
amount of 3 and 4 per cent, bonds so
far exchanged for 2 per cent, consols
being $50,037,650.
While the work of organization and
preparation is progressing satisfactor
ily in the new Department of Com
merce and Labor, Secretary Cortelyou
does not expect to accomplish much ni
tric way of the objects for which the
department was created until after the
beginning of the next fiscal year.
Secretary Hay has instructed Ambas
sador Tower, at Berlin, to investigate
a complaint that the authorities in
Prussia have taken steps to expel Mor
mon missionaries who are Americans.
It has been represented that these mis
sionaries have not taught polygamy.
The new Russian policy in Manchuria
is regarded as a violation of the treaty
with the United States.
Giarles H. Turner, former Tammany
congressman, was made assistant United
States attorney in the District of Colum
bia. Postmaster General Payne summar
ily removed James M. Tyner, assistant
attorney general for the Postofficc De
partment. He states that on Tuesday
Mrs. Tyner came to the office and, with
the aid of a safe expert, abstracted
from the safe all the papers, subse
quently refusing to give them up to an
inspector.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion decided that the proposed advance
in freight rates between New York and
Chicago was not justified.
Lieut. Henry W. Sprole, who shot
himself in the head, was the tenth amy
officer to commit suicide in the Philip
pines. Mr. I'ulido, the Venezuelan charge,
paid his respects to Sicrctary of S:ate
Hay.
United States Minister Leslie Combes
was the means of preventing war be
tween Guatemala and Salvador, accord
ing to a letter received at the Stale De
partment from Manuel Estrada.
After two days' hard fighting Gen
eral Gill was compelled to capitulate
to General Yasqucz, and look reiuge on
the United Slates steamer Atlanta, ly
ing at Santo Domingo.
Minister Fernandez, of Colombia,
has directed the editors of the news
papers to give the fullest consideration
to the Panama Canal.
Rear Admiral Luce, retired, will rep
resent the United States Navy at the
coming congress of the International
Red Cross at Geneva.
Significant information has reached
the State Department to the effect that
Brazil is no longer contenting herself
with a protest against the establishment
of a foreign syndicate on the head
waters of the Amazon,
Lieutenant Colonel Sprole, First
Cavalry, committed "suicide at Manila
by shooting himself through the head.
Secretary Root has directed the
court-martial of a number of army of
ficers in Alaska who are charged with
using commissary supplies for their
private profit.
It is the intention of Secretary Root
to have the organization of the general
stall perfected and ready for business
at the time the law goes into effee'.
Charles H. Cramp says neither the
International Marine Company nor the
United States Steel Company wiil con
trol the great shipbuilding plant.
Funiton's Request Denied.
Washington. D. C. (Special). The
judge advocate general, by direction of
Secretary Root, sent a formal letter to
General Funston denying the tatter's
request for a court of inquiry in con
nection with the charges that General
Funston had been guilty of cruelty to
Filipinos. General Funston, in denying
the charges, taid that if a court of in
quiry found that he issued orders
which would justify the giving of "no
quarter" to Filipinos, he would resign
'irnti h sriuv.
GREAT GIFT TO THE WORLD
Andrew Carnegie Offers' $1,500,000 to
Euild a Temple of Peace.
HOLLAND TO HAVE CHROE OF FUND.
Ills Offer to Furnish the Money (or the Coo
slructloa of a Home lor the Permanent In
ternational Tribunal at the Hague Corres
pondence Between the Scottish Pbllsntbro
plat snd Baron (levers.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Before
sailing for his home in Scotland, An
drew Carnegie donated $1,500,000 for a
Temple of Peace for the permanent
Court of Arbitration at The Hague.
The gift was made through Baron Gc
vers, the minister of the Netherlands
to this capitcd, and was made with the
understanding that the government of
Holland will be responsible for its ad
ministration. '
The correspondence between Mr.
Carnegie and Baron Gcvers is as fol
lows: New York. April 22, 1903.
Baron Gcvers, Washington:
Your Excellency Your welcome fa
vor reaches me on the eve of my depart
ure for my Scottish summer home. I
am delighted to hear officially from you
that your government believes that the
cause of the peace conference will be
immensely benefited by the erection of
a courthouse and library a Temple of
Peace for the permanent Court of Ar
bitration, established by the treaty f
July 29. 1899, nnd also that the govern
ment will consider itself responsible for
the disbursement of the fund, which 1
esteem it a rare privilege to be per
muted to furnish.
The sum named to me as being ample
for the purpose stated was $1,500,000.
I beg to say that the draft of tin- 1n1v
accredited officials of your government
upon me tor this sum will be honored
upon presentation here.
Believe me. vour excellency tin's
closing act before my departure has
given me profund satisfaction. I be
lieve that the creation of the nermnnent
tribunal for the settlement of interna
tional disputes is the most important
step forward, of world-wide character,
which has ever been taken by the joint
powers, since it must ultimately banish
war, our foulest stain.
Very truly yours, '
(Signed) ANDREW CARNEGIE.
Washington, April 23, 1903.
Andrew Carnegie. Esq., New Y'ork:
Dear Sir I have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 22A inst., in which you inform me
that you have decided to entrust to Ilr-r
Majesty's government the sum of
$1,500,000 for the erection of a court
house and library for the permanent
Court of Arbitratiin establshed by the
treaty of the 29th of July, 1899. Y'ou
further kindly state that upon presenta
tion here the drait of the duly accred
ited officials of my government upon
you for said amount will be honored.
I beg to say that I have not failed
to communicate by cable to the Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs the contents of
your letter, the original of which I will
forward to His Excellency by the next
mail.
Awaiting the answer of my govern
ment, it gives me great and intense sat
isfaction, dear sir, to express to you
my personal and sincere admiration of
the truly humane and noble sentiments
which prompted you to show to the
world at large in how high esteem
should be held the institution of peace
whose scat by the common consent of
nations has been placed in the realm
of my most gracious sovereign Queen
Wilhelmina.
Accept, dear sir. the assurance of my
highest consideration and believe me to
be,
Yours very sincerely.
GEVERS.
SAFE ROBBERS CAPTURED.
Bound Physician snd Forced Him to Look on
While tbey Worked.
Indianapolis (Special). Dr. Charles
Zinn of Michigantown was called to
see a patient at midnight Monday night,
and as he was returning home he was
confronted by two men with revolvers
and promptly hcld-up his hands. The
men bound him firmly and marched
him to the postofficc, where they placed
him in a comer of the room and then
went to work on the safe.
Holes were drilled into the safe as
Dr. Zinn sat by, and then a charge of
dynamite was put in and the fuse light
ed, followed almost instantly by an ex
plosion. The robbers took refuge out
side and then returned and robbed the
safe. Dr. Zinn was left in the office,
but managed to free himself and give
an alarm.
Woman Held (or Murd.-r.
Grand Rapids. Mich. (Special). Mrs.
Jennie Flood, of this city, was arrested
for the alleged murder of John London,
who was shot to death in Grattan town- I
shi'i last Tuesday. An accident insur- I
anre policy for $1000 was recently taken 1
out on Imrlon s person, with Mrs. Flood
as the beiiefici iry. Bernard I''iti:;!c''.on,
on whose farm the tragedy took plac;,
has also been arrested, lie and the wo
man tell conflicting stories.
Four Men killer',
Glace Bay, N. S. (Special). A gas
explosion brought death to four men
nnd probably fatal injuries to ano:htr
in the Reserve colliery here, while fire
damp overcame a score or more of men
who arq now in St. John's Hospital.
A rescue parly went into the mine and
brought out the bodies, the work being
dangerous, owing to fire damp and a
large number of men suffered in con
sequence. "Uncle Tom's Cablo" Left Out.
New Y'ork (Special). In the work of
revising the catalogue for class librar;
ies in the New York public schools
"L'nclc Tom's Cabin" has been left out,
nnd thereafter this story of antebel
lum days, so popular with readers of
fiction in the latter years of the cen
tury just closed, will be barred from
circulation so far as the board of edu
cation is concerned.
The reason given for the action by
the board of superintendents was' that
the story had served its purpose and
was of little value today.
Burg'ars Make a flood HsuL
Toledo, O. (Special). Four burglars
blew open the safe-of Munn & Son's
private bank, at Portage, O., and secured
$j,ooo in silver and paper money. They
made their escape on a handcar, wlujch
they ditched at Tontogany. The robbery
v. as not discovered until two hours later.
although the explosion in the bank had 1
awakened the entire village. All sup
posed it was a blast from the oil-fields.
Portage is about 33 miles frnrn Toledo.
The safe and contents were insured for
$4,000.
HE DEMANDS VINDICATION.
Alfred Dreyfus Asks lor a Reopeolog of HI
Case Letter to Minister.
Paris (By Cable). Captain Alfred
Dreyfus has submitted to Minister ol
War Andre a lengthy letter in which he
earnestly asks for a reopening of his
case by means of an investigation by
the Minister as the supreme head 0
military justice.
The letter, which is dated Paris,
April at, confirms reports that Drey
fus has been living quietly here fol
some time. It promises to cause a tre
mendous agitation among thc'varioui
elements of the political groups for and
against Dreyfus.
The first part of the letter is an earn
est plea that the court which condemn
ed him at Rcnncs was improperly influ
enced, first by the annotated document
ascribed to Emperor William, in which
it is alleged, the Kaiser declared Drey
fus had supplied documents to Germany
and second by the false testimony of
one of the witnesses Czernuski.
After arguing on the extent to which
these contributed to his condemnation,
Dreyfus recalls in graphic terms the
long series of horrors to which he had
bern subjected.
The letter throughout is couched in
a highly dramatic style, which is likely
to make it one of the notable papers
of the case.
It refers to Estcrhazy as "one who
stands before the entire world as the
culprit."
One of the leading passages, showing
the rhetorical style, is as follows:
"I will not recall. Mr. Minister, what
I have endured since 180.1. Picturr td
yourself the horrors of a soldier whose
whole life was devoted to duty, to work,
to loyalty and to profound devotion for
his country, and who, in an instant, is
stripped of his good name and despoil
ed of the honor of himself and hi:
children.
"For five years this soldier is subject
ed to horrible sufferings. They seek
to crush him physically, to annihilate
him morally. He is absolutely inno
cent of all crime, and struggles in vain
to penetrate the mystery, proclaiming
his innocence and struggling with all
the forces of his mind and body for that
supreme pleasure of vindicating his
good name and character.
"Days, months, years pass thus' in
most cruel agony, amid the tortures of
a murderous climate. At last he is
brought back to France, the guilty one
is discovered.and the soldier-hears him
self proclaimed innocent by those who
before reviled him as a traitor. It was
then, Mr. Minister, that I hoped to sec
my maryrdom end."
THE MINERS MUST WORK.
Instructions Arc Issued By tbe lnlon Officia l
Conciliation Plan.
Wilkcsharrc, Pa. (Special). The ex
ecutive boards of the three anthracite
districts of the United Mine Workers of
America, in convention here, issued in
struction that all mincworkcrs now on
strike or locked out return to work im
mediately, pending an adjustment of all
differences by the board of conciliation
provided for by the Anthracite Coal
Strike Commission.
District Presidents T. D. Nicholls, of
Scranton; W. II. Dc'.try, of Hazleton,
and John Fahy, of Shamokin, were
elected as the miners' representatives on
the board of conciliation. The board is
to consist of six members, three ap
pointed by the operators and three by
the miners.
The miners' executive boards held two
long sessions here behind closed doors.
When the meeting adjourned President
Mitchell said he had nothing to say,
beyond the instructions issued to the
men, except that he expects the coal
companies to appoint a similar concilia
tion committee, so that the grievances
complained of .an he adjusted as soon
as possible.
1 he instructions to the men issued arc
as follows:
"To All Members of the United Mine
workers of America in the Anthracite
Coal Field:
"The executive boards of districts
Nos, 1, 7 and 9. having under consider
ation the situation in the anthracite 're
gion, have, aftrr careful consideration,
concluded that the best interests of our
organizaticn will be conserved by an im
mediate resumption of work at all the
mines where strikes or lockouts are now
in force and the reference of all matters
of dispute to the joint hoard of conciiic
tion provided for in the award of the
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, in
order that'- adjustments may he facili
tated, we have selected the presidents of
districts Nos. 1, 7 and 9 to act as our
representatives on the hoard of concilia
tion, and we have decided to notify the
presidents of the various coal -carrying
railroads that we arc prepared to meet
the representatives of the coal companies
at the earliest possible date for the pur
pose of considering and adjusting all
miestions at issue growing out of the
interpretation or application of the
award. In pursuance of this action all
mir.eworkers are advised and instructed
to resume work immediately and to con
tinue all work in order that the differ
ences may be adjusted in the manner as
prescribed by the strike commission.
"In behalf of the executive board of
districts Nos. I. 7 and 9.
"T. d: nicholls, ;
"President of District No. I.
"W. H. DETTRY,
"President of District No. 7.
"JOHN FAHY,
"President of District No. 9.
"JOHN MITCHELL,
"National President."
President Mitchell has appointed the
Rev. T. R. Watkins, of Scranton, til be
a national organizer for the United
Mineworkcrt of America, He is the
only miner-preacher in the anthracite
regions.
King's Son to Head It. 1
London (By Cable). The appoint
ment of the Prince of Wales as presi
dent of the Royal Commission which is
to represent .Great Britain at the St.
Louis Exposition will be made at the
special request of King Edward, who
thought he could thus best demonstrate
his personal interest in the exhibition
and his cordiality toward America gen
erally. John Redmond, the Irish lead
er, was invited to be one of the two
Irish members of the commission, but
his many engagements necessitated a
declination.
SPARKS FROM THB WIRES
Fire at Fairbury, Neb-, destroyed IS
business houses and a number of resi
dences. Losses aggregate over $100,.
000.
Colonel Rickey, well known at the
inventor of the famous "gin rickey,"
committed suicide in New York.
Alexander Ramsay, secretary of war X
under President Hayes, died at his
home, in St. Paul, Minn,
Brigadier General Manning reporter
the complete annihilation in Somlilam 1
of Colonel Plunkett's flying column rif
over 200 men. Only 80 Yaos Cicape.d.',
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Lnfcst Netvs of Pennsylvania Told fi
Short Order.
Pensions granted: Samuel C. Tuv
sey, Hollidaysburg, $6; Wilson Switzer
West Freedom, $; John Morgan, C.'
nonsburg, $8; Patrick Dougherty, Gj.
rardsvillc, $8; Frederick Dieche, MCJ,
villc. $8; Daniel Grubbs, Wilkinsbnrj
$46; WilliamH. Williams. Sacgcrstown'
58; James B. Redin, Pittsburg, $t2'
Elizabeth Thompson, Pittsburg, $H; j'
J. Sancy, Oil City, $ia; Joseph l!
Shoemaker, Oakland, $u; Georn
Dupham, Pittsburg, $10; Conrad R.
Bccchling, Eric, $u; Samuel D. Dunn,
Farnassus, $10; Jesse M. Smith, Knox
$10; Thomas B. Mikcscll, Blairsvillt
$10;. Henry Hunt, Tyronville, $n'
Stoj. Henry !
John Riffcl, !
Johnson, Pittsl:
bert, Johnsont
Summit, $12: Viraiim
sburg, $8; Thomas Won,
nbura. $8: Frederick V
Gipner, Pittsburg, $10: tames Rol(
vanaerout, itf ; j allies w. roster. inn
ncautvillc, $10: John W. Nichols, .
Icgheny, $8; John G. Myers. Punxsu
tawney, $.24: Thomas S. VV. Kitsnn,
Shippingport, $40; Hugh A. Hook)
Adrian, $55: John Abbey, Indiana, $51!
Samuel B. Yoder, Pittsburg, $46; Sam!
ttel Cunningham, Indiana, $40; John C.
McGrath, Ag'ncw, $46; Jacob Kregcr,
Kingwood, $55; David Owens, I'itts.
burg. $46: Joseph W. Horton, Ejst
Brady, $46; Frederick Ott, Johnstown,
$46; Henry Lewis, Ediuboro, $55; Johi
A. Snyder, Pittsburg, $12; Joseph X,
Cannon, Bcllwood, $12.
Jacob J. Hefner, a miner, was crushtd
to death by a fall of coal at-DuBois.
Harry Hoover, with a bullet womiil
in his thigh, was arrested at New Cas
tle, and is being held pending an in
vestigation. The Odd Fellows' building at Carry
was damaged by fire to the extent oi
$15,000. Charles Spratt, who occu
pied the lower floor, lost heavily.
Owen McBarncs was killed in a tun
away near Mercer.
South Sharon voted to issue $30,500
in bonds for a new school house.
The survey for the new trolley road
between Kittanning and Moss Grove
has been started.
Beatrice Bigclow, niece of State Sen
ator Sissoii, was killed by a train at
Erie.
Blowing machines arc being installed
in the Jeannctte plant of the American
Window Glass Company.
The Pennsylvania Railroad lias
awarded the contract for the erection oi
the new roundhouse at Hollidaysburg.
Grovcr Mitchell, of Moravia, wai
held up and robbed by highwaymen,
who secured his watch and $8 in money.
Rev. T. D. Roth and Rev. S. M.
Mount, joint pastors of the Butler
Lutheran congregation, have each re
signed. An application for the release fmm
jail of Gctirge West, charged with the
murder of Ralph Stivers, was made in
court at New Castle.
The remains of the brakeman killed
on the Unity branch of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad was identified at Dcrrj
ns those of P. F. Mahan, of Shamo
kin. Lottie Evans, of Washington, as a re
sult of a love affair, attempted suicide
at the boarding house of Mrs. Rne
Hannon by swallowing carbolic acid
The girl was found in her room scream
ing with pain as a result of swallowing
the acid. She was taken to the Wash
ington Hospital.
An unknown man was found mur
dered on the outskirts of the town ol
Shenandoah. He was shot through the
head and bore evidence of having been
dragged from the roadside to,, the place
where his body was found. His pock
ets were turned inside out when he wai
found.
Erie police have formed a union and
threatened to strike if their demand)
of $60 a month salary are refused.
Fire in the yards of the Moncsscti
Lumber Company destroyed $15,000
worth of property before brought under
control.
Five Chinamen were arrested at Erie
charged with being in the United State!
in violation of the Chinese exclusion
act.
Several arrests were made at Punxsu
tawney as a result of a disturbance in
the Jewish synagogue. The alleged of
fenders were bound over for a hearing
Mrs. Julia Ann Dachrodt, Easton't
oldest woman, is dead, aged 95 ye?"1
Four Chinamen who arrived in Erie
from Dunkirk, U. Y., have been placed
under arrest by government detective!
on a charge of having been run acrosi
the Canadian border. They were found
hidden in a State street laundry.
John P. Lloyd, a prominent contra:
tor, died at the Cambria Hospital of
fractured skull, the result of a fall sev
eral days ago.
A union store will be opened at Sum
mit Hill and conducted under the man
agement of the United Mine Workert
of America.
An epidemic of typhoid and scarlet
fever is battling the Health Board ol
Lansford. Many cases have been re
ported. Councils have chosen Randolph Hcf'
ron, of New Y'ork. to be the superin
tendent of tbe sanitary sewerage work
to be done at York in accordance wit"
the $400,000 loan voted at the recent
election.
Charles Hague, 9 years old, of Ches
ter. fe!1 under the wheels of a freight
car and had a leg taken off.
The citizens of Marion Heights,
town located on the summit of a moun
tain west of Mr. Carmcl, have organ
ized a fire company.
In a shanty ten feet square, where l'
lived alone, John Moluski, of Mt. Car
met, wat found dead by a party iJ
children. Hit death wat due to old agt-
Hibner, Hoover & Co.'t warehoust
at Dubois, with its contents, was de
stroyed by fire. Loss, $.15,000; partly
insured.
Eli Cope, Brideport's chief of poli
was arrested on the charge of assault
Louis Bergener ,of Beaver Falls, w
arrested on a -charge of conducting '
sneak-easy.
The voters of Woostcr townslupi
IWayne county, decided for saloons W
la vote of 130 to 12B.
At Corry, Vera McLean, a Hi1,
$chool girl, attempted suicide by shoot
ing with her father's revolver.
At Washington the presbytcrv of uV
Presbyterian Church elected Rev.
N. Houston, of Cross Creek, mode'
ator. f
In the State Senate five bitls, relating
0 the coal miners, wat patsed ftnallr
The bills are at follows:) Providmt
lor a home for old, crippled and help
Mess mineworkers and their wives, 1M
ame to be maintained jointly by "
employes and employers; prohibit!"'
,thc employment at any work to person1
.under 31 years of age in or about 'j
fthracite coal mines more than cif"
hours a day; revising the Mine Insp'
I ...... I-,... mnA t.-ir ntlrlitioM
inspection district to be treated out "
Dauphin county; amending the mm10'
(awt so as to make the ton of
fiounds the basis from which to ctK
ate the earnings of miners;
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