TRIUMPH OF JAPANESE ARMS Mukden and Fushun Taken, and Kuropatkin Crushed Czar to Send Out New Army-Resignation of Gen. Kuropatkin Will Be Accepted. Russia will not give up the fight. Not withstanding the peace talk in St. Pet ersburg and Paris, the Czar has decided to raise a new army, reorganize the forces in Manchuria and order the sec ond Russian Pacific fleet to sail for the Far East. It is admitted at the Russian capital that it will be difficult to mobil ize another army, and some officials be lieve it impossible. Russian officials say that only in the event of Japan tendering "moderate" terms and recognizing Russia's power in the Far East can peace be easily ar ranged. The Czar and his counselors figure on Japan being unable to stand the financial strain. General Kuropatkin has assumed all responsibility for his defeat. His excuse is that he miscalculated the Japanese strength. The Czar will accept his res ignation as commander-in-chief. Gen eral Grodekoff may be selected to suc ceed him. The Japanese are in touch with the Russians at Tie Pass, and Field Marshal Oyama is pushing the advantage gained, determined, if possible, to drive the Rus sians from their latest shelter and force the fighting to a finish. The troops ar riving at Tic Pass are in a disorganized state, showing that the retreat turned into a panic. The full extent of the Russian disaster is still unknown. The Russian censors eliminate ail mention of the numbers of prisoners taken by the Japanese from the press dispatches. Kuropatkin has evidently lost the whole, or the larger portion, of af least one army corps and a part of another. He reports that 1,190 officers and 46,3';! men are missing at roll-call. While a small portion of Kuropatkin's army has reached Tic Pass, the greater part of those who escaped from the bat tic of Mukden are still struggling north ward, being at last accounts between 12 and 16 miles from their goal, with the Japanese, flushed with victory and rein forced by fresh men, harassing them from all sides. Even should the rem nant of the army reach Tie Pass, it is hardly possible for it to make a stand there against the overwhelming force opposing it, especially as the Russians must be worn out and weakened by the loss of men, guns and ammunition. According to Marshal Oyama's latest reports the Russians taken prisoner in the Shakhe district alone number 40.000, including Major General Nnkhimoff. The Russian killed and wounded in the same district number 00.000. They left 26, 500 dead on the feld. The Japanese casualties from Febru ary 26 to March 12 were 41,222. JAPS IN ANOTHER TURNINQ MOVEMENT. Rasslaa Army la Such Disorder That Losses Art Not Vet Determined. Tie Pass (By Cable). The Japanese, it is reported, have ceased their pursuit, at least temporarily. Some of the Jap anese are 25 miles below Tie Tass. A resumption of their advance is expected. Rumors arc in circulation that the Jap anese already arc attempting another wide turning movement to drive the Rus sians from Tie Pass. The Russian troops here have been arriving with hopelessly mixed units in consequence of the change in the front. The troops arc being sorted out and or ganizations reformed and assigned to places to defend the new position; but whether Tie Pass will be held or aban doned probably will not be decided for several days. It is still too early to tell the extent of the Russian defeat, because not all the parts of the army have been assembled, and the losses during the retreat are no small portion of the casualtits. OYAMA TELLS OP TRIUMPH. The Occupation of Mukden and Success of Surrounding Movement. Tokio. (By Cable) Field Marshal Oyama tclcgranhs as follows : "We occupied Mukden at 10 o'clock Friday morning. "Our surrounding movement, in which we have been engaged for some days past, has now completely succeeded. "The fiercest fighting continues at sev eral places in the vicinity of Mukden. "We captured a great number of pris oners, enormous quantities of arms, am munition, provisions and other war sun plies. There is at present no time to 1 vestit;ate the number of these." It is unofficially reported that the Rus sian strength west of Mukden con-i-.ts of two corps. The Japanese who de stroyed the railroad arc pressing the Russians northward, and the portion of the Japanese center pressing the Rus sians northward along the Mukden road is now engaged six miles north of the Hun River. The Japanese have also occupied Fu shun. Nearly all the Russian-.' heavy guns and many field guns have been rap tured. Washington. (Special) Fushun has been captured by the Japanese forces, according to the following cablegram re- Asssssln a Noble ? New York (Sp.citil). A special cable from Paris states: "The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Petit Journal says that the assassin of Grand Duke Scrgius has been found to be a member of a princely family connected witn the Utwilcnskys. This is tHe reason for the concealment of his name by the authorities and explains the visit which Grand Duchess Eliza beth, widow of the Grand Duke, paid to bun in his cell. Too Oerm of flay Fever. Berlin (bepcial) Prof. William Dun bar, director of the Hamburg Hygien ical Institute, born an American, but naturalized as a German, delivered a lecture before one of the Berlin scien tific societies on hay fever, which he has made for many years the subject of special investigations. Professor Dun bar succeeded in finding the germ of the disease in the pollen of rye, maize and certain grasses, and treated horses with these germs and secured a serum called pollanlin, which has been used with good effect, entirely curing many rases. reived by the Japanese Legation from 1 okio ; "Our detachments occupied Fushun on the night of March 9, and now arc at tacking the enemy, which is posted at the angle of the heights north of Fu shun. KUROPATKIN'S DESPAIRING- MESSAGE. Laconic Report 1 hat Many Belleva to B the Forerunner ol a Surrender. St. Petersburg. (By Cable) "Friday night all our armies commenced to re treat." The greatest defeat in the history of the Russo-Japanese War was made known in St. Petersburg Friday night, but only in the paltry eight words from General Kuropatkin to Emperor Nich olas, which were flung about the streets in newspaper extras and passed from mouth to mouth. Two thoughts formed instantly in the minds of everyone, and two words were on every lip Surrender, peace the former dreaded, the latter hoped for. General Kuropatkin is no maker of phrases; bis words never are quoted like the famous "All is lot save honor;" but his laconic messages hide more than probably any other two sentences in the literature of war. St. Petersburg knows nothing of the extent of the disaster; not even the lines of Kuropatkin's re treat; whether the route to Tie Pass is still open, whether he is endeavoring to cut his way through to safety, or whether, as many of the pessimistic be lieve, he has taken to the mountains. If it be the latter, he will inevitably be hemmed in and starved into surrender, as Marshal Bazainc was at Metz. The dispatch has been studied as close ly as was ever the most abstruse text of Scripture over which dogmaticians have wrestled, and from the words "all our armies" the optimistic draw the de duction that the bulk of the Russian forces got away clear, the commander-in-chief sacrificing, however, the devoted rear guard, who flung themselves as prey to the Japanese wolves, who were clos ing in on their trail, and sacrificing also, it is conceded on every hand, the greater part ot Ins heavy artillerv, especially the siege guns and enormous quantities of supplies and munitions. WEALTH IN OUR COAL MINES. Hundreds of Millions of Tons Are Produced Annually. Washington, D. C. (Special). The world's coal production in 190.? reached the enormous total of 864,000,000 long tons, of which the United States sup plied more than any other country. Sta tistics received by the Department of Commerce and Labor, through its Bu reau of Statistics, indicate that the world's output of coal in 1003 was 864, 000,000 tons, of which the L'nited States produced 319,000,000 tons, against 230, 000,000 produced by Great Britain, 160, 000,000 by Germany, 39,000,000 by Aus-trai-lfungary and 35.000,000 by France. The world's growth in coal production is coincident with its growth in com merce, indicating the close connection between coal supply and industry and transportation. From 1800 to 1850 the world's production of coal was relatively small and only increased from li'j mil lion tons at the beginning of that cen tury to 81,000,000 in 1850; the world's commerce meantime increased from $1, 500,000.000 to $4,000,000,000. Since 1850 there has been a marked increase in the production of coal and an equally nota ble expansion of international commerce. Coal production has in the last half cen tury increased tenfold and commerce more than fourfold, the former increas ing from 81,000.000 tons in 1850 to 804, 000,000 tons in 1003; the latter from $4,000,000,000 in 1850 to $22,000,000,000 in 1903. The rapid growth in the world's pro duction of coal is even surpassed by the record of the United States. In 1800, when anthracite coal was practically un known in the United States, the world was producing over 11,000,000 tons of coal per annum. In 1870, when the world's coal production amounted to 2r3,ooo.ooo tons, the United States sup plied but 33.000,000, or about 15 per cent, of the whole, being exceeded by Great Britain with 1 to,oix.ooo tons and Germany with over 33,000,000. From 1870 to 1903 the growth in the world's coal p-oductioti has been from 213.000, 000 at the first-named year to 864,000,000 in 1003, a gain of 65 i,(jr 10,1x10 tons, or over 300 per cent. Robs Woman Station Agent. Elizabeth, N. J (Special ). Mrs. f'ri-.cilla Keid, station agent on the Penn-ylvaiiia railroad at North Eliza beth, was waylaid and robbed. A man seized her by the throat and told her to give him the handbag she carried or he would choke the l.t'e out of her. The woman struggled, but he clutched her throat tighter, struck her in the fare ami wrenched the hag, containing $58 and tickets, from her gra-p. Then he fled, leaving her lying in the -now. Her screams caused a pur, nit, and tin man was caught after a chase. Miners Drop to Death. Wilkesbarre, Pa., ( Special ). While seven men were being hoisted in the car riage in the Clear Spring- colliery at West Pittston the rope broke and the men were hurled to the bottom, a dis tance of 250 feet. All Were killed. Im mediately after the accident a rescuing party was organized with J. L. Coke, general manager of the Clear Spring Company, in charge. The bodies of the seven men were found in a heap at the bottom of the shaft horribly mangled. Big Fees for Lawyers. Washington, D. C, ( Special ). The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a warrant for $750,000 in favor of Mans field, McMurray & Cornish, lawyers, re siding in the Indian Territory, as fees for services rendered by them to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. The Secretary of the Interior declined to ap prove the claim on the ground that it was excessive. Congress, however, di rected the payment on the showing tSm it was regular ami in accordance w'lh the contract with the Indians, SEWS IN SHORT ORDER. Tr.t latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Readlnf. Domestic The strike on the Interborough Rapid Transit Company's lines in New York is at an end, the men having been ad vised by the leaders to apply for rein statement. A man known as Hunter de Bowie is accused in New York of various swin dling operations in which women were the victims. Young Kingdon Gould was hazed by "The Black Avengers" of Columbia Col lege. 1 he committee of the Trunk Line As sociation in charge of the uniform bill of lading question has agreed to with draw the bill, to which objection has been made, if the shippers will promise to drop the appeal to the Interstate Com merce Commission. Chairman J. Taylor Ellyson, of the Virginia Democratic State Committee, is expected bv many to resign some time in Mav. William W. Conner, of Somerset coun ty. Md., committed suicide at Norfolk. Norfolk supervisors paid back into the treasury $4,815 salaries paid to them in excess of the $30 allowed. The National Mothers' Congress is expected to demand the unseating of Senator Smoot, of Utah. Six colonels in the army are soon to be retired with the rank of brigadier-general. Sir II. Rider Haggard was the guest of the President at the White House. For the present the President will consider no more applications for con sular positions. Grand Chief Stone, of the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers, revoked the charter of the striking Interborough engineers in New York. Many of the strikers applied at the company's offices for positions. The strike continues. Representative members of the theat rical profession attended the funeral of Mr. A. M. Palmer in the "Little Church Around the Corner" in New York. Albert De Rome, crippled from the effects of hazing, swore out warrants for the arrest of students of the Hopkins Art Institute, in San Francisco. By a collision at Monk Center, Ind., between two trains Engineer Harson was fatally injured and Fireman Harry Cum mings was instantly killed. At a meeting of the Pittsburg mem bers of the Amalgamated Association of Street Car Employes it was determined to present a new wage scale. Mrs. Jefferson Davis is anxious to have the State of Mississippi recognized on the monument to be erected in Rich mond to Jefferson Davis. Proceedings for disbarment have been entered at Marianna, Fla., against for mer Chief Justice Liddon, of the state. Oliver Hopkinson, the oldest member of the Philadelphia bar, is dead, aged 93 years. Two negroes were hanged in Birming ham, Ala., for the murder of their sweet hearts. Grand Chief Warren S. Stone, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, has ordered the striking motormen on the Interborough to return or be ex pelled. The local leader of the strike says the men will stay out. Many have returned and traffic is moving along. The executive committee of the United Brethren Missionary Board dropped Daniel F. Wilbcrforce, a native African missionary, who, after 25 years' work in the church, relapsed to heathenism. W. S. Al.'ey, who was suspended from the New York Slock Exchange for one year for alleged irregularities last Sep tember, has been reinstated by the gov erning committee. "The Moral Forces in the Twentieth Century" was the subject of the Trask lecture delivered at the Princeton Uni versity by the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett llaie. An address on "Some Phases of the Municipal Problem" was delivered be fore the Yale Law School. foreign. A project is on foot in London to con struct additional immense docks for the port of London. London physicians say they believe the increase in lunacy among women in that city is due to the monotony of living in flat-houses. A man giving the name of A. H. Mc Cullough was killed by a bomb he drop ped in a St. Petersburg hotel. Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, the new director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at New York, says Americans fail to appreciate native genius. President Nord, of Hayti, has post poned the final hearing in the case of eight Syrians under order of expulsion on the complaint of American Minister Powell for having presented false Ameri can naturalization papers. Count Tolstoi, in a letter to the Lon don Times, defends the Russian govern ment as no worse than all other gov ernments, and advises all men "to free themselves from every government and abolish it." The outbreak of the peasant in the south of Russia has assumed such alarm ing prop, h i ions that troops have been sent to restore order. The peasants have burned much valuable property. A legal que, lion which has arisen in Berlin is whether a pearl found by a lady cu-.tomer while eating oysters in a restaurant belongs to the finder or to the proprietor of the restaurant. April 18 of the Russian calendar, or May I, American calendar, has, it is re ported, been set for the real beginning of the revolution in Russia. It is reported that 0,000 Somalis have a'tacked the town of Merka, 011 the Bex dir Coast, East Africa, and have annihi lated the inhabitants. Twenty or thirty miners are reported killed and many serious burned in an rxplo-ion in the Caiubian Colliery, Khondda Valley, Wale,. Thirty-two battalions of Turkish rein forcement have been called out to cope with the insurrection in the province of Yemen, Arabia. Revolutionary disorders have broken out at Smolensk, in Middle Russia. Bands of demonstrators are marching through the streets carrying red flags. Two firemen were severely burned in extinguishing flames in the cellar of the new palace at Potsdam. Young men iin Berlin arc distributing pamphlets, throughout the city warning women against wearing birds in. their hats.' Russia, evidently fearful of British encroachment, is hurrying troops and military stores to the Indian frontier, and a Russian official says that sooner or later e conflict with Great Britain is inevitable. Vice Admiral Lord Charles Bcresford, of the British Navy, sailed on the North German Lloyd steamer Kronprimt Wil helm from Southampton for New York, on his way to Mexico and Florida. Baron von Lyndcn has resigned as foreign minister of the Netherlands. THE JURY SAYS GUILTY Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick is Convicted on the Charge of Conspiracy. VERDICT REACHED IN TWO HOURS. Court Convened at Night to Receive Finding Sinks Helplessly Into Her Chair and Bresks Into Sobs When Outcome la Announced to Her Oealness Prevented Her From Hearing Hit Verdict New Trial Promptly Moved. Cleveland (Special ). Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick was found guilty of conspir ing to defraud the United States in pro curing the certification of checks on a national bank, when there were no funds in the bank to her credit. She was found guilty on every count of the indictment upon which the jury was at liberty to judge her seven in all. The original indictment contained 16 counts. Two of these were ruled out during the (rial by Judge Taylor, and of the remaining 14, one-half charged her with securing the certification of checks without having the proper entries made upon the books of the bank. Judge Tay ler, in his charge, directed the jury to disregard these counts and consider only the remaining with no funds on deposit. Under the law she can be fined on each count, but not more than $10,000 or imprisonment more than two years on each count, or she may be fined a maxi mum of $10,000 and imprisonment for two years on each count. , The jury left the courtroom at 3:33. It was announced two hours later that a verdict had been reached, and the jurors asked to be taken out to dinner. Word was sent to Judge Tayler at his hotel, and he set 8:30 o'clock as the time at which he would appear in court to receive the verdict. The jury went out at 6:15 and returned at 7:30. Court was opened promptly at 8:30 and the verdict read at 8:33. Mrs. Chadwick came into court about five minutes before the jury. She was accompanicil by her son, Emil Hoover, and two trained nurses. She sank into the scat she has occupied during the trial and rested her face in the palm of her right hand a position she held al most constantly throughout the sessions of court. During the afternoon she had suffered severely from a cramp in her right arm,, being at times barely able to use it. She forgot all about the cramp at night in her excitement and moved the arm as if nothing had ever troubled it. The jury sat silently in their chairs waiting for the appearance of Judge Tay ler, and around the dim, illy lighted courtroom stood perhaps 30 persons more newspaper men, bailiffs and attaches of the office of District Attorney Sulli van. Mrs. Chadwick's counsel, Judge Wing, also was present, and he sat si lent, with a frown of apprehension upon his face. For several minutes the courtroom waited, no motion being made by any IhkIv, when Judge Tayler entered from his chambers, and walked quickly to his chair. Jle glanced in an inquiring man ner toward the jury, but said nothing. "I have it, your Honor," said Clerk Carleton, holding up a slim white pa per. Then, turning his face to the court room, the clerk said : "Gentlemen, answer to your names as they arc called." All of the jurymen responded and Clerk Carleton unfolded the verdict and stood up. "We find as to count one guilty. "We find as to count three guilty." The same sentence was repeated five times more for the five remaining counts, and commenced energetically to enter the verdict upon his records. "Gentlemen," said the Judge, "was this, and is this, your verdict?" An inarticulate murmur of assent rose from the jury, and then in a few words Judge Tayler thanked and dismissed the jury. SIGNED 1,842 MEASURES. BUI Passed sBy Congress and Approved By President Washington, D. C. (Special). Dur ing the session of Congress which closed on March 4 President Roosevelt signed 1,842 measures passed by the Senate and House of Representatives. The footings of the enactments have just been completed by Col. William M. Palmer, assistant clerk of the Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills, and Mor ris A. Latta, enrollment clerk at the White House, through the hands of both of whom all the measures passed. Both Colonel Palmer and Mr. Latta have han dled the enactments of the Congress for many years, and not one ever has failed of approval through negligence. Of the measures enacted at the last session 238 were public bills, including 14 appropriation bills, 1,560 were private bills, 34 were public resolutions and one was a private resolution. The total num ber of enactments during the previous session of the Fifty-eight Congress, w hich was nearly two months longer than the session just closed, was 2,199. It is note worthy that nearly two-thirds of the measures enacted at the last session were delivered at the White House by Colonel Palmer for the approval of the President during the last two weeks of the session. Town Stirred By Revival Dixon, 111. ( Special). After Evangel ist William A. Sunday had preached a sermon on impure amusements at the Tabernacle here hundreds of persons went forward and publicly renounced dances and progressive card games. So ciety women have also announced an in tention of forsaking decolettc costumes. Nearly 4,000 heard the sermon and more than 3,k others clamored for admit tance. Gamblers have broken their ta bles, burned their paraphernalia Desperate Mao's Crime. - Denver, Col. (Special). Geo. Schist ic r shot and killed Mr. and Mrs. K. Fill and their sou in their home here. Ho then set fire to the house. When attempting to arrest Schistlcr Police Captain William Bohanna and Police Surgeon George Dulin were shot by him and seriously wounded. Schist ic barricaded himself and held a larjjc force of officers at bay for several hours, many shots being exchanged. The des lerate man was finally killed by Under Sheriff Felix O'Neill. Mrs. Schistlcr lropped dead when 8hc heard of the tragedy. DEATH DIE TO POISON Verdict of the Coroner's Jurj in Stan ford Case. FRISCO DETECTIVES VISIT THE SCENE. According to the Finding of Jury In Honolulu, Mrs. Stanford Died an Unnatural Death, (he Causa Being Strychnine Poisoning, the Drug Having Been Introduced Into Bottle of Bicarbonate of Soda. Honolulu. (By Cable) The coroner's jury returned a verdict that Mr9. Jane L. Stanford died an unnatural death. The verdict says that death was due to strychnine poisoning, the poison having been introduced into a bottle of bicar bonate of soda with felonious intent by some person or persons to the jury un known. The end of the inquest with a positive verdict of murder leaves the police ot Honolulu as much without a clew as when Mrs. Stanford died. High Sheriff Henry said after the inquest that it was his opinion that the strychnine was placed in the soda in San Francisco by a member of Mrs. Stanford's household. At the inquest Dr. Shorty testified that the strychnine used, as shown by the tests, was a strychnine such as it not used generally for medicinal purposes, but used for poisoning animals. This statement is regarded as of possible as sistance in tracing the purchase of the strychnine. The jury returned their verdict after about two minutes' deliberation. The verdict of the coroner's jury to the effect that the death of Mrs. Stan ford was due to strychnine poisoning is the subject of much adverse criticism here. Many persons declare that evi dence was lacking to sustain the conclu sion of the jury as to felonious intent. The verdict was written out with the knowledge and assistance of Deputy High Sheriff Rawlins. The jurors, who took less than two minutes to arrive at the verdict, immediately signed their names. David Starr Jordan, president of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University; Tim othy J. Hopkins, a member of the board of trustees of the university .Capt. Jules Callundan, representing a detective agen cy of San Francisco, ami Detective Harry Reynolds, of the San Francisco Police Department, arrived here on the steamship Alameda. ' Dr. Jordan said that all the way to Honolulu he had hoped he would find on arriving that the death of the great benefactress was due to natural causes. Mrs. Stanford, in conversation with him, he said, made little reference to the at tempted poisoning at the Stanford man sion at San Francisco on January 14, and did not appear to think very much of it. Dr. Jordan and Mr. Hopkins both said they had nothing whatever to do with the investigation which the police of San Francisco and Honolulu are con ducting. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN A SCHOOL. Valuable Astronomical Apparatus and a Splendid Library Burned. Philadelphia, (Special). The new Boys' High School, at Broad and Green streets, considered one of the finest struc tures of the Norman type in the coun try, and built and furnished at a cost of more than $1, 500,000, was damaged by fire and water to the extent of about $150,000. The fire began after all the classes had been dismissed. The only scholars in the building at the time th; fire was discovered were the candidates for the various athletic teams, who were in the gymnasium. They numbered about 200, and rendered .good service in saving books and other property. The lire started in the workshop of Monroe B. Snyder, professor of astron omy and higher mathematics, and was capsed by defective electric wiring. One-half of the fifth floor of the main portion of the structure and the entire observatory tower, which rises five floors above the main building, were burned out. The greatest loss was the contents of the observatory. The main telescope, costing $.25,000, a number of other instruments and an instrument for segregating the colors of the sun, of which there are only four in the world, were damaged beyond repair. The val uable library of Professor Snyder, con taining books and papers that cannot be replaced, was also destroyed. Headless Body Found. Pocatello, Idaho (Special). A ranch er reported finding the remains of a man and a woman in a fissure of the rocks and lava beds about four miles up Portneau Canyon, south of Pocatello. The body of the man was headless. That of the woman was wrapped in a blanket. Indications are that the man and wo man were murdered and that the crime was committed at least two years ago. Cereal Mill Burned. Cedar Rapids, la (Special). The plant of the American Cereal Company, said to be the largest oatmeal mill in the world, is burning, and probably will be a total loss. Two persons have lost their lives. The fire is spreading, and assistance has been asked from nearby cities. Mr. Mcicull to Visit Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga (Special). Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf has ac cepted an invitation to be present in Atlanta May 16, at the meeting of the American Manufacturers' Association. FINANCIAL The coastwise shipments of coal in the United States last year was 34,000,000 tons. Quietest week of the year in the wool trade, says the "American Wool Re porter." It is said that II. C. Frick has bought 20,000 shares of Philadelphia Rapid Transit. Erie wilt issue $4,000,000 of notes to pay for new equipment, including nearly 200 locomotives. Rogers, Rockefeller and Ryan are once more said to be after the 'control of all Greater New York electric, railway and gas plants. The slump of 2ji points in Sloss-Shcf-ficld and 5 points in Tennessee Coal looked as if there were a serious hitch in the Southern Steel merger, . Railroads report net earnings for Jan uary as follows : Mobile & Ohio de creased $23,549, Southern decreased $83, 734, Norfolk ci Western decreased $73, 103, Union Pacific increased $.115,5.28, Southern Pacific increased $5l,orx, Chi cago Great Western increased $10,000, Atlantic Coast Line decreased $73,01x3. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. At a mcetl-'jr of the President and his Cabinet it was decided that the length of service of an incumbent v;-"'ild not be a bar to his reappointment in the fed eral service, the main test to be if his services were satisfactory. Funeral services for General Bate were held in the Senate prior to the dispatch of the remains to Nashville Tcnn., for burial. The President, members of his Cabinet, diplomatic corps and other high dignitaries were present. Secrelary Hitchcock has given out a statement concerning the investigation made by the Department of the Interior into the irregularities in Oregon in pub lic cases. There have been 68 indict ments and 6 convictions. Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks has appointed his son, Fred C. Fairbanks, as his private secretary. Former Ambassador Andrew D. White delivered an address in which he recommended a number of changes in the system of appointment and promo tion in the diplomatic and consular ser vice. Secretary Hay issued a statement de claring that it had never been the pur pose ul the administration to negotiate a protocol with Santo Domingo without submitting it to the Senate. Postmaster General Cortelyou formal ly received the chiefs and assistant chiefs of the various divisions of the Post oflice Department. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, by a party vote, agreed to re port favorably on the Santo Domingo 1 rcaty as amended. Jacques Jouvcnal, a sculptor, whose work is conspicuous in the capital, died, at the age of 75. Charges have been filed against the mail bag repair shop of (he Postofficc Department. Secretary Taft has declined to ac cept the resignation of Capt. George II. Kirkman. The Senate, in executive session, made public the second message of President Roosevelt on the Santo Domingo treaty. It says that the Dominican interests de mand action by the Senate at the earli est practical moment. The National Republican Editorial As sociation met in Washington. William S. Capeller, of Mansfield, O., was elected president. The appointment of Charles II. Treat to be treasurer of the United States, vice Ellis Roberts, resigned, was sent to the Senate. George B. Cortelyou, on assuming the office of postmaster general, announced that in a few days, as soon as he can arrange some minor details, he will re tire from the chairmanship of the Re publican National Committee. He will be succeeded by Vice Chairman Harry C. New, of Indianapolis, who will be come the acting chairman of the com mittee. Postmaster General Cortelyou an nounced that Frank H. Hitchcock, of Massachusetts, has been selected for first assistant postmaster general. All members of the Cabinet took the prescribed oath as the heads of their respective departments, the administra tion of the oath being attended by no formality. The informal ceremonies took place at the departments. President Roosevelt's naval aid, Lieut. Roscoc Carlisle Buhner, and Miss Anita Poor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Poor, of Washington, were married in St. Thomas' Episcopal Church by the rector, Rev. C. Ernest Smith. THIS MINISTER A PERJURER. Sentenced lo (be Penitentiary lor Violation of Pension Laws. o Knoxvillc, Tcnn. (Special) Rev. Ben jamin W. Ashley, a minister of the Christian Church, residing near New port, Tenn., was given a sentence of fif teen months in the penitentiary in the Federal Court here today for violating the pension laws. In investigating his case a pension ex aminer discovered that he was a biga mist. After Ashley had been plac.d on the pensions rolls a North Carolina wo man claiming lo be his wife made appli cation for a division of the pension. Ashley swore she was not his legal wife, but that his wife, was a Tennessee wo man. Investigation proved that Ashley married his first wife in 1865, and had never obtained a divorce, but had aban doned her thirty years ago, marrying a second time after coming to Teiinesse to reside. He pleaded guilty of perjury, and may be prosecuted for bigamy when he has served his Federal sentence. MINERS CRUSHED TO DEATH. Four Killed and Four Injured By a Runaway Coal Car. Charleston, W. Va Special). At Shrewsbury, a mining village 16 miles above here, a mine car, loaded with coal and carrying to workmen, who were coming from the mine, dashed a thou sand feet down the 45-degrec incline, killing four of the miners and injuring four others. The men had left their work and were riding down to their homes when the ropes pulled out of the "dcadcye". of thc'drawhead and the car descended like lightning to the bottom of the in cline, 1,000 feet below. Two of the 10 men jumped as soon as the car was re leased and were Unhurt. Others jump ed later and were injured more or less severely. Four stayed until the car smashed into the tipple, demolishing it and being itself destroyed. A Medal From Hie President. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special) It was re ported from McKecsport that as a rec ognition of his services for flagging a Baltimore and Ohio inaugural train Sun day and preventing ft terrible catastro-' phe, Thomas Bain, a coal digger of Sha ner, will receive a medal of honor from the government. He was notified that President Roosevelt would bestow the medal soon. The railroad company will also recognize Bain's services. Senator Bala Dead. - Washington, D. C, (Special), Sena tor William Brimage Bate of Tennessee, twice Governor of his State, a veteran of both the Mexican and Civil Wars, rising from private to major general in the latter, and for tH years a conspicu ous, member of the United States Senate died at his hotel apartments in this city, aged 78 years. Death was due to pneu monia and a defective heart. Senator Bate attended the inauguration cere monies on March 4. and his death is believed to be due primarily to expos ure nn thai occasion MILLIONS WERE - VOTED Total Appropriations By the Recent Congrcs;. SOME ENFORSFIiN ENPENDITl'RES. Representative Livingston Charges Lavish Expenditures Due to Militarism Mr. Hemen way Defends the Administration Deficiency In the Revenues ol the Government for Cur rent Year Will Not Exceed $18,005,0.0. Washington, D. C. (Special) State ments were issued by Mr. Hcmenway, lately chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, and by Mr. Living ston, the ranking member of the mi nority on the same Committee, relating to the appropriations by the session of Congress just closed. j The statements as to the total appro priations for the session agree, being $818,478,914 for the fiscal year ending on J 11,1c 30, I006, against $781,172,375 for the previous year. Mr. Livingston makes a comparison of the four years of the last Cleveland Ad ministration and the four years of the Administration just closed, showing that in 1893-06 the appropriations were $2, 016,343,753, and during the years 1903 06 appropriations were $3,I53.334.292. Mr. Hcmenway says: The public debt has been reduced since August 31, 1865, at which it reached its highest point, $2,756,431,571, to $1,280, 255.997, at the close of February, 1905, or more than $416,000,000 in excess of the literal requirements of the sinking fund law. During the four fiscal years (1893-,. 1806) of President Cleveland's last Ad ministration there was applied"- to the sinking fund only $1 3.41x1,047, or an av erage of little more than $3,000,000 pet annum. Dining the eight fiscal years (1897 1904) of the Administrations of Presi dents McKinley and Roosevelt the ag gregate amount applied to the sinking fund was $237,516,669, or an average of nearly $30,000,000 per annum. Another permanent annual appropria tion which docs not affect the ordinary receipts and expenditures of the Govern ment is for the redemption of circulat ing notes of national banks that are re tiring rtr reducing circulation. These redemptions arc made out of deposits of national banks required by law for that purpose, and the estimated amount that will be paid out of these deposits for these redemptions during the fiscal year 1906 is $30,000,000. Speaking of the total appropriations, Mr. Hcmenway says: The sum total of these annual appro priations for the support of the Govern ment for the fiscal year 1906 is large, and when to it is added the amount of authorized requirements of the sinking fund, which represents material things that we have had, including arms and munitions of war used by our prmies in preserving the Union, and wnen there are also added the amount that may be used in redeeming national bank notes and the sums for deficiencies and the amount carried in miscellaneous acts, it makes the substantial sum of $818,478,- 9'4' -,. These figures represent, indeed, a large sum of noney, but they likewise represent a great and rich nation of peo- P,c- , Mr. Livingston, after giving various expenditures, says : We have and the country has a spec tacle presented of appropriations made at this session of $818,478,914, with pre dicted revenues for the ensuing fiscal year of 1906 amounting to only $725, 590,515, a difference of $92,888,399, a broad enough expanse between the buckle of expenditures- and the tongue of revenues to startle .he plain and com mon people who bear the burdens of taxation ; and it is enough, I am sure, to brihg into play all of the ingenuity of Republican financiering in order to make the two extrenieties meet without destroying their idols of revenue-raising, thai prohibit importations in order to protest against foreign markets the prod ucts ol trust combines in our country. During the four years (1893-1896) of Mr. Cleveland's last administration, sup ported by a Democratic Congress for only two years of that period, the total appropriations '.or every purpose of the Government amount to $2,016,343,753. During the four years (1903-1906) of Republican government under Mr. Roosevelt the appropriations have soared up to the almost incomprehensible sum of $3.153.331.292, , or $1,136,990,538 of increase for the present quadrennial peri od over that of tbe last Democratic Ad ministration, which closed only eight years ago. . The most general analysis of the ap propriations made for each of the two quadrennial periods mentioned b'ings out with staggering force the criticism! that occurs to every thinking, patriotic citizen against the spirit of militarism that characterizes the latter period. Hanged By Masked Men. New Orleans (Special). The Pica yune's Vicksburg (Miss.) special says: "The body of Dr .William B. Oliphanr,, who was shot to death by a half crazy, negro at Helm Station, in Washington county, arrived here. From the same train the negro who was responsible for the death of Dr. Oliphant was taken from the deputy at Elizabeth Station by' a masked body of men anil hanged. It is stated that the negro had been in jail as a mild lunatic an.il discharged only a few days previous to tlie shoot ing. ! Trust Bill Falls at Hurrlsburg. j Harrisbuig, Pa (Special). The bill; authorizing companies incorporated tin-1 der the laws of any state for the manufac-, ture of paper to erect and maintain: buildings and manufacturing establish ments and to take, have and hold real estate necessary for .manufacturing pur-, poses, failed of final passage in the, House by a vote of 94 to 61. The coun try members of the House were almost, a unit in opposing the bill, which, they allege, is backed by a trust. Accident to an Aclresi. Edrardsville, III (Special). Victory Bateman, the well-known ac.red3, has been seriously burned by an unexplained fire at her room at the Leland Hotel here. During the day she had complain ed of not feeling well and had retired to her room. A messenger who opened the door found the bedclothes on fire and gave the alarm. Mr. Clark, the landlord, and others fushed lo the room and succeeded in rescuing the woman, but not before ;she had been burned! about the lower litnbi. 1
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