KILLED BY A TORNADO
A Furious Windstorm Sweeps Across
Tens.
THE fllY OF LAREDO IS IN RUNS.
Eaoraeit Properly Damage, Accompanied
by Great Lets ol Life, la Southern Texas
A Hundred or More Are Injured, but ll li
Thooghl Tbejr Will Recover School end
Hoiplul Wrecked.
Laredo, Texan (Special). Twenty-one
persons were killed and loo or more
injured in Laredo and in New Laredo
by a tornado which tore through these
cities late Saturday night, crossing the
Rio Grande. Rumors of others killed in
places outside Laredo lack confirmation
The property damage i large.
The damage wrought at the Laredo
Seminary is extensive. Not one of the
group of excellent buildings which go
to make up that institution escaped
damage. The barracks, the primary
building, Emery Hall and the chapel
were damaged from 50 to 75 per cent.
The escape of the teachers at the in
stitution was narrow, as the walla of
.some of the buildings which they oc
cupied were demolished. Mrs. Easlcy,
one of the teachers, was rescued by sev
eral young cadets, students of the insti
tution, who lowered her by a rope' from
a second - story. She was severely
bruised.
The roof of the Mexican National
Hospital building was lifted from the
edifice, and it will require much time to
repair the building for patients.
A trip through the town fails to show
a block that has not suffered from the
storm. Trees, fences, telegraph and
telephone poles, corrugated roofs, chim
neys and walls and debris of all kinds
strew the streets.
The city authorities are at work clean
ing away the wreckage of the storm.
Linemen are at work endeavoring to
straighten out the tangle of wires, and
it is believed that within two days the
electric light service can be resumed. It
is hoped to re-establish telegraphic com
munication, at least partly, within two
days.
Conditions in New Laredo, across the
Rio Grande, are similar to those exist
ing on this side. It is not definitely
known how many dead .or injured there
are in New Laredo, but a city officer
said there were five dead that he knew
of. The five known dead added to the
list of dead on this side of the river
would bring the number of dead in
both cities up to 21 persons.
The storm made its appearance from
the southwest in the neighborhood of
Lampasas, Mexico, 72 miles from Lare
do, and it is reported that great havoc
was wrought at Lampasa, although it is
not thought that any loss of life re
sulted. When the storm struck Laredo the
huts occupied by the poorer classes were
razed; and as the wind increased in
force the more substantially conducted
buildings were unroofed, and in many
cases, were demolished.
Lightning tlashed vividly and contin
uously, adding to the fears of the peo
ple. The storm lasted about one hour.
The Mexican National Railroad has
temporarily abandoned its servile on ac
count of lack of telegraph wires for
the dispatching of trains. Physicians are
busy attending to the wounded, and it is
thought that all the injured will recover.
Dr. H. J. Hamilton, of the United States
Marine Hospital .service, has placed 150
tents with bedding at the disposal of the
homeless.
OGDEN SPECIAL TRAIN WRECKED.
Prominent People Norrowly Escape Death
Some Are Injured.
Creenville, S. C. (Special). While
rounding a curve inside the yard limits
of the Southern Railroad, at Greenville,
and running at the estimated speotl of
50 miles an hour, the special Pullman
train bearing Robert C. Ogdcn and 100
members of the Southern Conference
on Education crashed into the rear end
of a freight train at 7.55 o'clock A. M.,
killing four persons and injuring a score
of others. None of Mr. Ogden's guests
was killed.
The combination baggage and club
car and two diners, together with the
locomotive and a freight car, were piled
into a heap, and in an instant fire broke
out in the cooking end of the diners.
Mr. McKelway, Professor Farnam, Mrs.
Farnam, Mrs. Thorp, Dr. Dreher an 1
Ri bert M. Ogdon were eating breakfast
in the second diner, which was torn to
pieces. The floor collapsed and the pas
sengers were picked up from the track.
The seven sleeping cars behind the din
ers were left intact, but the shock sprung
many locks, imprisoning the occupants.
Seth I.ow and Mrs. Low, Dr. McVickur
and others w;:re rescued when the doors
were smashed open with axes. The pas
sengers in the St. James were quickly
removed, but the three negroes could nut
be saved. They breathed the flames and
died. When he saw that the cra,h could
not be averted Engineer Hunter, of the
Ogdcn train, applied the emergency
brakes and jumped. Practically all of
the baggage, s:.icj to be valued at $12,
000 was destroyed.
FACTS WORTH REMEMBER1NQ.
Jwpan persists in its refusal to allow
foreigners to secure any property, mines,
mortgages or railways.
In two years, at the outside, the
strength of the Japanese Navy will be
represented by about 250,000 tons of dis
placement. Over one-fortieth of China's popula
tion of 400,000,000 is slaves. Every fam
ily of means keeps its girl slaves, it be
cheaper to buy them limn to hire
tticru.
tfennr.n Flarl.smann, a poor ragpicker
of Hanover, inherited $10,000 from an
American uncle. When the money was
piid ovtr to I'.im on February 14 he
dropped dead.
Proie.ssor Reu.ssnt-r, of Berlin, a recog
nized KUthority on Russian affairs, in a
recent interview said that 10.000,000 in
habiuuti of the Russian Empire are lit
erally t Irving.
OvrittK to the railway congestion in
Argentina, farmers and . exporters have
loit cnonnou!j. Government intcrven
. turn been demanded, incompetent
ma'iaj;rait!it hnvi'ig been stated a the
aiuc. ,
NEWS IN SHORT ORDEf,
Tbe litest Happenings Condensed1 to Rapid
Reading.
Domestic
Miss Mae Wood entered suit in Lin
coln, Neb., against Private Secretary
Locb, former Postmaster General Wynne
and Miller Martin, a Secret Service em
ploye, asking $35,000 damages for get
ting' from her by trickery Senator Piatt's
love letters.
The grand jury returned indictments
against tl members of the executive com
mittee of the Cleveland Retail Coal Deal
ers' Association for violating the state
anti-trust law.
A shortage of $71,000 has been found
in 4he treasury of Athens county, O. The
fund was tampered with during the in
cumbency of various county treasurers.
A number of aldermen of Grand Rap
ids, Mich., convicted of being invi !vcd
in the water works scandal paid the f.nes
imposed on them.
The stock market in New York was
completely demoralized, frantic efforts
to sell causing a terrific break in all
securities.
The legislative committee which has
been investigating the gas question in
New York has recommended 75-cent gas.
United States Senator Bacon, of Geor
gia, sailed from New York for. Europe
on the steamer Prinzess Irene.
Paderewski has cancelled his Ameri
can engagements and decided to return
to Switzerland.
Helen Lord took arsenic in New York
on learning that the man she loved was
dead.
Mrs. Whelan, 75 years old, a recluse,
was found murdered at her home, in
New York.
A tablet marking the house No. 6,1
Prince street, New York city, in
which President James Monroe died,
in 1831, was unvclicd by Gouvcvncur
Hoes, of Washington, D. C. a descen
dant of the dead president. Gen. Fred
crick Dent Grant made an address on
"Monroe the Soldier."
After a metting of the directors of the
Wabash Railroad Company in New
York it waa semi-officially announced
that President Ramsay and Mr. Gould
had settled their differences and that
Mr. Ramsay will probably remain at
the head of the company.
In the United States Circuit Court
at Chicago Judge Kohltaat issued a
temporary injunction, .returnable May
to, restraining interference with em
ployes taking the places of striking
teamsters.
In Louisville, Ky., Bishop McCabe
expressed himself in favor of the or
ganic union of the two branches of
Methodism.
Fred Footc has been arrested at
Beaudette, Minn., on the charge of
killing Mayor Gannon, of Spooncr, Wis.
The killing was the outcome of a
town-site feud.
Dr. John McMastcr, professor of
history at the University of Pennsyl
vania, disapproves of Carnegie's pension
fund for college professors.
Paderewski, the pianist, was attacked
with neuritis in Canada and has can
celed all of his engagements.
Kansas City will be supplied with
natural gas at the rate of 25 cents per
l.ooo cubic feet.
In an address before a committee of
ministers in Boston Dr. Washington
Gladden again attacked the Rockefeller
gift, declaring that the Standard Oil
played with stacked cards and loaded
dice.
The east wing of the new Claryida
Hospital for the Insane, Iowa, collapsed,
carrying seven workmen down with the
debris. None of the men was seriously
injured.
Dr. Wesley R. Wales, of Cape May,
N. J., pleaded not guilty to the charge
of fraudulently obtaining money from
the First National Bank of New Jersey.
Frank G. Bigelow, the defaulting bank
president of Milwaukee, filed a petition
in bankruptcy with liabilities of over
$j,coo,ooo and assets estimated at $1,500,
000. Mrs. Blanche Shaw, the principal wit
ness against a number of officials in
Pueblo, Col., has disappeared. It is be
lieved she has been kidnapped.
R. L. Leathtrwond and W. A. Denson,
young lawyers of Birmingham, Ala., had
a pistol duel. A bystander was wounded.
Mrs. Josephine L. Noble was acquitted
at Flushing, Long Island, of the charge
of murdering her husband.
Elijah Johnson, colored, was hanged in
Philadelphia for the murder of Julius
Collins.
Albert T. Spargo .hot and killed his
wife and himself in Quincy, Mass.
iorcigu.
Count von Tattenbach-Ashold, who is
in Morocco to arrange a special commer
cial treaty between Germany and Mo
rocco, practically states in an interview
that Germany docs not recognize French
influence in Morocco.
A St. Petersburg newspaper says that
while sentiment in the United Slates
seems to have favored Japan during the
war, the attitude of the American gov
ernment has been strictly correct.
The business sessions of the World's
Conference of the Young Men's Chris
tian Association came to a cloc in Paris.
John Wanamaker and Ambassador Por
ter made addresses.
The number of British emigrants to
the United States in 1904 was nearly
double the combined total of the emi
grants to all the British colonics.
French Foreign Minister Delcasse re
ceived General Porter, the retired United
States minister, and his successor, Mr.
McCormick.
The Antidueling League of Germany
is endeavoring to strike at the causes
of duels.
Lord Grimthorpe died at St. Albans,
England, at the age of K9.
King Edward arrived in Paris and
was cordially received.
The estate of Baron Rekki, near
Milan, Russia, was plundered by armed
peasants and the Baron was assaulted
and almost killed.
Sanao, capital city of Yemen Province,
Arabia, capitulated to the insurgents,
who lire now proceeding to besiege
Manakhe.
For the first time permission has been
granted for publication in St. Petersburg
of a Jewish paper in the Hebrew lan
guage. The international exhibition in honor
of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Bel
gian independence was opened at Liege.
In deference to the wishes of the
German government the American
Chamber of Commerce in Berlin has
changed its name to the American As
sociation of Commerce and Trade.
General Kozloff, former chief of the
Moscow police, has been appointed gov
ernor general of that city. His appoint
ment is regarded as a revival of the
harshest measures of repression.
The British steamer Yuen Wo has
been destroyed by fire and 1 50 Chinese
P'"ed. p . ,
Moroccan miration ha excited.
' anxiety in Pari.
GEN. F1TZ LEE DEAD
Distinguished Soldier and Statesman a
Victim of Apoplexy.
BE WAS STRICKEN ON A TRAIN.
Hod Been to Boston to Tell of Jamtitown
Exposition His Brother, Daniel Leo, W11
the Ooly Near Relative With Him When the
End Comt His Notable Career Before and
After the Civil War.
Washington, (Special). Brig.-Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee, United States Army, re
tired, and President of the Jamestown
Exposition Company, is dead.
He was stricken with apoplexy at
about 2 o'clock Friday morning while
on a train en route from Boston to
Washington and insisted on being carried
to the end of his journey. He reached
here at 10 o'clock an was removed to
the Providence Hospital, where he died
at it. 20 o'clock T. M.
His death came suddenly. At 9 o'clock
Major Guy L. Edie, of the Army Medi
cal Staff, who had charge of the case,
issued a bulletin stating that General
Lee's respiration was ,v his tempera
ture )8.8 and his pulse 112.
Maior J. R. Kean, Major Charles F.
Mason of the army, and Dr. Hardin
were in consultation with M?jor Edie
over the case.
At 11.15 P. M. Drs. Kean and Edie
reported that General Lee's condition
had taken a turn for the worse. His
breathing became difficult and the pulse
was not so good. A few minutes later
he was dead.
At his bedside when he died were his
brother, Daniel Lee, and Drs. Edie- and
Kean. The end came quite suddenly
and was without pain. The dead Gen
eral was doing fairly well considering
the severity of the attack until 10 o'clock,
when the change came for the worse.
General Lee was on the Federal ex
press when he was stricken, the train
being near a terminal of the New York,.
New Haven and Hartford railroad, in
the vicinity of the Harlem river. Ho
first complained of a pain about his
heart, which was diagnosed, but later
he sustained a serious stroke of- paraly
sis, affecting his entire left side. The
train was transferred to Jersey City
and the Pullman car Ludlow, in which
General Lee rode, was brought all the
way to Washington.
General Lee was conspicuous as a man
among men. He was born November
19, 1835, at Clermont, Fairfax county,
Va. He was the son of Commodore
Sydney Smith Lee, who was the third
son of Gen. Harry Lee, popularly known
as "Light Horse Harry Lee." Gen. 1
Fitzhugh Lee was a nephew of the late
Gen. Robert E. Lee and followed the
fortunes of his distinguished uncle and
of his native State in the Civil War,
but accepted, as did the former, all the
results of the war, and since Appomat
tox has served Virginia and his country
in a number of important official ca
pacities. To him perhaps as much as
to any other man may be credited that
firm reuniting of the North and the
South, which existed even before the
war with Spain, disproving a favorite
theory abroad that the United States
of America was a conglomerated nation
"held together by a rope of sand."
TWELVE KILLED IN MIME EXPLOSION.
Dangerous Oases la Shalt Became Igni
ted. Dubois, Pa., (Special). Twelve men
were killed and one will die as the re
sult of an explosion at the Eleanora
shaft, near Big Run. The shaft is lo
cated one-and-a-half miles from Big
Run, on the Buffalo, Rochester and
Pittsburg Railway, 12 miles south of
here. It is in an isolated part of the
country. The mine is owned and oper
ated by the Rochester and Pittsburg
Coal and Iron Company, and is a com
paratively new shaft, having been opened
two years ago.
The mine was thought to be free. from
dangerous gases. The night shift was
small, or there would have been more
fatalities. Every man who was in the
mine at the time of the explosion ex
cept one is reported killed. Three bodies
have thus far been recovered. Two of
them were brothers named Kirkwood.
The men were English-speaking and
resided at Eleanore, a small mining vil
lage' two miles from the shaft.
Saet By a Burglar.
Newbtirg, N. Y. (Special). Rawdon
Foster, a son of William Foster, a promi
nent manufacturer, awoke early the other
morning to find a burglar in his room.
Young Foster grappled with the in
truder. The burglar placed a revolver
clo.se to Foster's body and sent a bullet
through his lung. lie then jumped from
a second-story window and escaped.
Foster's condition is serious.
Jealous Man's Crime.
Quincy, Mass., (Special). Albert T.
Spargo shot and killed his wife, Eliza
beth, and then put a bullet through his
own head, with fatal results, at his
home in South Quincy. The tragedy is
believed to have been caused by iealousv
on the part of Spargo, who was a son of
Councilman William T. Spargo, of this
city. Spargo was 38 years old and his
wife was 33.
Skull Are of White Men.
Victoria, British Columbia (By Cable).
Advices from Quatsino report that an
investigation of the cave discovered near
there by prospectors, in which 35 skulls
were found, tends to show that the bones
are evidently those of white men not
Indians. None of the skulls has the
high cheek bones peculiar to Indians of
that section of the coast. Settlers in the
vicinity believe the skulls are probably
those of a shipwrecked crew murdered
by the Indians in the early days.
Langlil at His Prayer.
Albany (Special). The feature of the
session of the assembly was the prayer
delivered by Rev. C. H. McDonald, a ne
gro minister. He prayed loudly that
"when life's) journey is at an end we
ask Thee to bring us to that General As
sembly where Jesus Christ will be the
Speaker and business shall be transacted
without graft or the dictation of the
lobbyist." The reference to graft was
greeted with roars of laughter, and
Speaker Nixon had difficulty in getting
the member to subdue their) merriment.
MINISTER BOWEN CALLED HOME.
Must Justify fill Attack on Secretary Loomls
His Successor.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Secre
tary Taft has received instructiohs from
the President to call Minister Bowcn,
now at Caracas, to Washington; also
to send Mr. Russell, now minister to
Colombia, to Caracas, and Mr. Barrett,
now ' minister to Panama, to Colombia.
It is stated that if Mr. Ilowen's action
relative to the charges affecting Asssist
ant Secretary Loomis are not subject to
criticism it is the President's purpose
to send him as minister to Chili and
then probably as ambassador to Brazil.
The cablegram to Minister Bowen, in
structing him to report to Washington
forthwith, was dispatched by Acting Sec
retary Loomis. If the Minister is par
ticularly active, he may reach Wshing
ton about May 8, the day the President
expects to break camp and start home
ward. If he misses this steamer, the
Minister must wait at least week for
another. Arriving here before the Presi
dent's return, Mr. Bowen will ruakc his
statement to Secretary Taft, who is
disposed to deal with the case himself
and not permit it to remain open to
add to the bulk of important business
which will confront the President upon
his return to the capital.
Secretary Taft also sent a cablegram
to Minister Bowen stating the reasons
for his summons to Washington. They
are, in brief, first, because Mr. Bowen
has filed charges against Mr. Loomis;
second, the publication of those charges
in the New York Herald; third, Mr.
Loomis' complete denial; fourth, Mr.
Loomis' countercharge that Mr. Bowen
had secured that publication, and rith,
Mr. Loomis' desire to be confronted by
Mr. Bowen here. The Secretary added:
"If all goes well, you may return to
the diplomatic service."
The official admission that there is a
possibility of Mr. Bowen's eventually be
coming ambassador to Brazil indicates
the President's purpose to make a change
at Rio. As a matter of fact, David E.
Thompson has for sometime past been
seeking to effect the transfer from Rio
to the Crty of Mexico. The President
was desirous of accommodating him, but
found it neoessary to promote Minister
Conger from his place at Peking, and
Mexico afforded the only opening among
the embassies-. So Mr. Conger was sent
to Mexico with the understanding that
he should relinquish the place Within the
year in favor of Mr. Thompson, and, to
console the latter 'for the delay in the
realization of his aspiration, the Bra
zilian ministry was" erected into an em
bassy. Mr. Thompson will, however, in
the ordinary course of events, succeed
Mr. Conger as ambassador to Mexico
sometime next winter at the latest.
The changes announced leave the mis
sion to Chili vacant, even in the event
that Mr. Bowen, having satisfied the au
thorities here that he is blaneless in the
matter of the circulation of the rumors
in the asphalt case, is transferred to San
tiago, for that detail will be only tem
porary, and the post is likely to be filled
permanently in the errtl by the appoint
ment of John Hicks, of Wisconsin, who
was American minurcY to Peru during
President Harrison's administration.
CONDITION OF Y. M. C A.
A Total Membership of 688,000 In Forty
Co n:rles.
Paris, (By Cable). The greetings of
King Edward were presented to the
World's Conference of the Young Men's
Christian Associations now in session
here, through Lord Kinnaird, one of
the vice presidents. Messages were also
received from rulers and notable per
sons in Norway, Italy and other countries
and from the Yopng Woman's Chris
tian Association. The report of the
condition of the associations by Prince
Bernadotte, second son of King Oscar
of Sweden and Norway, showed there
were 7,661 associations in 40 countries,
with a membership of 688,000.
North and Soulh United.
New York (Special). Cheering under
the Stars and Stripes entwined with the
old Confederate flag,' 320 women of the
North and South sang "Yankee Doodle"
and "Dixie" with equal enthusiasm at the
annual luncheon of the New York Chap
ter of the United Daughters of the Con
federacy at Delmonico's. Mrs. Fairbanks,
wife of the Vice-President, struck the
note of sympathy in saying, "Your or
ganization and the one 1 have the honor
to represent have helped to hide the
scars of the past division of our country,
and they have covered the divisions with
the flowers of forgetfulness and the gar
lands of gentle remembrance."
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS,
At the meeting of the Senate Com
mittee on Interstate Commerce James H.
Hiland, third vice president of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Company, made a statement regarding
railroad rates which specially affect
Northwestern traffic.
The State Department received a re
port from Minister Allen, at Seoul, 011
the facts of the assault by robbers on
Dr. Forsyth, an American missionary
doctor, and the efforts to punish the
robbers.
The appeal of Chief Naganab, of the
Chippewa Indians, of Minnesota, in his
case against Secretary of the Interior
Ilitchock was docketed in the Supreme
Court.
Rear Admiral Bradford's squadron, of
the North Atlantic fleet, has been ordered
to relieve Rear Admiral Sigsbee's divi
sion in Cuban and Dominican waters.
Secretary Taft will, if the Presilent
assents, order Minis.er Bowen, at
Caracas, to return immediately to Wash
ington and explain the charges against
Secretary Loomis.
James P. Dolliver, of Morga,ntown,
W. Va., father of Senator John P. Dol
liver, of Iowa, died at the latter's resi
dence, on Massachusetts avenue.- He
was 90 years old.
The French govenrment has desig
nated M. Gueard as the French member
of the Board of Consulting Engineers
attached to the Isthmian Canal Com
mission. A' police census of the District of
Columbia shows a population of 322,
445, of which 227,607 are whites. There
is a gain of 43,727 over the federal cen
sus of 1000,
The Census Bureau has issued the
final report on the cotton crop grown
in 1904, showing an increase of 35 per
sent, over the yield of the previous year.
Walker D. Mines continued his state
ment before the Senate Interstate Com
merce Committee. lit criticised the
Esch-Townsend bill and said the In
terstate Commerce Commission was not
sufficiently vigorous in prosecuting rebate
law violations.
ANOTHER CARNEGIE GIFT
$10,000,009 Fond For the Woraoat
Professors.
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS TRUSTEES.
The Ironmaster's Benefaction la the Interest
of Higher Education Says He Believes
This Inportant Class of People to Be
Underpaid Colleges Have No Means of
Providing for Them.
New York, (Special). A gift of $io",
000,000 by Andrew Carnegie to provide
annuities for college professor's who are
not able to continue in active service was
announced by Frank A. Vanderlip, vice
president of the National City Bank of
New York. Professors in the United
States, Canada and Newfoundland will
share in the distribution of the income
of the fund.
United States Steel Corporation 5 per
cent, first mortgage bonds for $10,000,000
have been transferred to a board of trus
tees and steps will be taken at once to
organize a corporation to receive the do
nation. Dr. Pritchett, president of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and Mr. Vanderlip have been selected by
Mr. Carnegie to obtain data on the sub
ject to be presented at the first meeting
of the board of trustees, which will
take place on November 15.
Mr. Vanderlip gave out the following
letter to the press :
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has transferred
to a board of trustees, consisting in the
main to presidents of the most important
colleges in the United States and Can
ada, $10,000,000 first mortgage 5 per cent.
Steel Corporation bonds. The purpose
of the trust fund thus created is to
provide annuities for college professors
in the United States, Canada and New
foundland, who, from old age or other
physical disability, are no longer in a
position to render the most efficient ser
vice. Steps will at once be taken to organize
a corporation to formally receive the be
quest. The first meeting of the board
of trustees has been called for November
15. In the meantime it is Mr. Carnegie's
desire that Dr. Prichett, president of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy, and myself proceed to obtain data
from all the institutions concerned for
use at the meeting of the trustees. The
bonds which Mr. Carnegie has so gener
ously donated have a market value of
$11,000,000, and will produce an annual
income of $500,000.
The corporation which is being formed
will be styled "The Carnegie Founda
tion." Yours very truly,
(Signed) F. A. VANDERLIP.
Mr Carnegie's letter to the trustees
is dated April 18, and is as follows:
I have reached the conclusion that the
least rewarded of all the professions is
that of the teacher in our higher educa
tional institutions. New York city gener
ously, and very wisely, provides retiring
pensions for teachers in her public schools
and also for her policemen. Very few,
indeed, of our colleges arc able to do so.
.The consequences are grievous. Able
men hesitate to adopt teaching as a
career, and many old professors whose
places should be occupied by younger
men cannot be retired. I have, therefore,
transferred to you and your successors
as trustees $10,000,000 5 per cent, first
mortgage bonds of the United States
Steel Corporation, the revenue from
which is to provide retiring pensions
for the teachers of universities, col
leges and technical schools in our own
country, Canada and Newfoundland
under such conditions as you may adopt
from time to time. Expert calculation
shows that the revenue will be ample
for the purpose.
The fund applies to the three classes of
institutions named, without regard to
race, sex, creed or color. We have,
however, to recognize that state and
colonial governments which have es
tablished, or mainly support, universities,
colleges or schools may prefer that their
relations shall remain exclusively with
the state, I cannot, therefore presume
to include them. .
There is another class which slates
do not aid, their constitutions in some
cases even forbidding it viz., sectarian
institutions. Many of these established
long ago, were truly sectarian, but today
are free to all men of all creeds or of
none such are not to be considered sec
tarian now. Only such as are under
control of a sect or required trustees
(or to a majority thereof), officers,
faculty or students to belong to any
specified sect, or which imposes any theo
logical tests, are to he excluded.
Trustees shall hold office for five years
and be eligible for re-election. The first
trustees shall draw lots for one, two,
three, four or five year terms, so that
one-fifth shall retire each year. Each
institution participating in the fund shall
cast one vote for trustees.
The trustees are hereby given full
powers to manage the trust in every re
spect, to fill vacancies of nonex-officio
members, appoint executive committees,
employ agents, change securities, and,
generally speaking, to do all things nec
essaBy in their judgment to insure the
most beneficial administration of the
funds.
I hope this fund may do much for the
cause of higher education and to re
move a source of deep and constant anx
iety to the poorest paid and yet 'one of
the highest professions.
Gratefully yours,
ANDREW CARNEGIE.
(Jos Wrecks Horn:.
Newark, N. J., (Special). An ex
plosion of illuminating gas front a broken
pipe wrecked the home of Charles Koch,
a machinist, and set fire to the house,
causing the death of Koch and probably
fataly injury to his wife. While sup
posed to be temporarily insane Koch
broke the pipe in his dining-room, and
when Mrs. Koch. entered the room with
a lighted lamp an hour later there was
an explosion which blew off the roof
of the house. '
Carneglt Cautious.
New York, (Special). Andrew Car
negie, accompanied by his wife and
daughter, sailed for Europe on the White
Star Line steamer Baltic. They pro
pose to spend the summer at Skibo
Castle, Mr. Carnegie's estate in Scot
land. Mr. Carnegie was asken if he
would say something regarding the agi
tation about "tainted" money.
"No," he replied laughingly, "I an,
hardly in a position to discuss the sub
ject. I never give money 'where I think
that it will not be accepted."
PRESIDENT CURTAILS TRIP.
Will Return to Washington a Week
EarKer.
Glenwood Springs, Col., (Special.)
President Roosevelt will break camp on
May 8, a week earlier than he had in
tended, and will start for Washington
at once. The only stops he will make
will be at Denver and Chicago, where
the dates for his reception have been ad
vanced to meet the new arrangement.
Secretary Locb returned from the
camp, where he conferred with the Pres
ident. He announced upon reaching
here that affairs in Washington made it
necessary that the President curtail his
visit. That there is nothing alarming
in the situation is manifested in the fact
that the hunt will be continued 10 days
more, in spite of conditions of govern
mental affairs which resulted in the
altered plans.
The Venezuelan situation, it js be
lieved here, resulted in the order to start
home on May 8.
New Castle, Col., (Special). Cubfoot,
a grizzly ktar that has been a terror to
sine.!! larmcrs and ranchmen for a num
ber of years, was killed by Fred Tollcns,
a member of President Roosevelt's hunt
ing party. It had been hoped by mem
bers of the party that Mr. Roosevelt
would get a chance at this bear, but the
animal was overtaken by the dogs, and
was playing havoc with them when
Tollcns came up. To save the hounds
Tollcns was compelled to kill the bear.
AT WORK ON THE CANAL.
An Effective Organization Already Formed
Many Men Employed.
Chicago, (Special). Speaking of the
actual physical work of building the
Panama Canal, Mr. John F. Wallace,
chief engineer of the Panama Commis
sion, said that an organization had al
ready been formed, embodying a total
of 8,000 men. Of this number practically
6,000 men arc engaged in equipment and
construction work, and 21000 men are
engaged in polking the canal zone and
in sanitary work and in cleaning up the
isthmus. This organization will be
rapidly increased and has been increas
ing at the rate of from 800 to 1,000 men
a month.
Of the total number of men employed
about 10 per cent, are high-class men
from the United States and the rest are
meclmnics, artisans and laborers that
have been brought from the nearby
South American and Central American
coasts and from the West India islands.
There is a demand for men expert in
the mechanical trades; for instance,
steam-shovel men, draftsmen, railway
track fore.. .en, engincmcn, carpenters
skilled in heavy timber work and in the
construction of dredges and bridges.
Should it be decided to change the
canal to sea level, Mr. Wallace said it
had been estimated that 14 miles of
summit cut would be necessary, and this
would require 100 steam shovels, about
300 engines and train crews and 15,000
dump carrs. The service would necessi
tate four double-track railways for the
removal of the material, which would
have to be hauled on an average 15 miles.
Approximately 350 miles of construction
track would be necessary.
0IFTS TO SOUTHERN COLLEGES.
Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago, Distributes
' Sum of 135,000.
Chicago, (Special). Dr. D. K. Pear
sons, of Chicago, announced gifts to five
Southern colleges. The amotjnts donated
range from $10,000 to $50,000.
The total amount is $135,000. Dr.
Pearsons announced that he had rejected
requests of over 400 institutions. The
selections are as follows :
Guilford College, Greensboro, N. C,
$25,000; Piedmont College, Dcmorest,
Ga.. $2S.ooo: Washineton Collcire. Wash
ington Tenn., $25,000? Grant University,'
Chattanooga, Tenn., $50,000; West Vir
ginia Seminary, Morgantown, W. Va.,
$10,000.
Dr. Pearsons, who is a wealthy retired
business man of this city, has made
donations heretofore aggregating over
$2,500,000.
Referring to the gifts made today,
Dr. Pearsons said:
"The colleges to which I give these
presents must raise $3 for every dollar
I give them, and this must be done with
in a year."
,
Trading Stamp Store Run.
Lafayette, Ind., (Special). Warned
by merchants that a local trading stamp
company was moving itj stock from La
fayette on account of alleged financial
trouble, an active crowd of more than
100 men, women and children attacked
the company's store in Main street and
for a time there was much excitement
as a run on a bank would have caused,
holders of the stamps crowded into the
store and took possesion of the first
things thev could lay their hanrrs on.
Within half an hour the well-stocked
establishment had been stripped of every
article that had been kept for the re
demption of trading stamps. No ar
rests were made.
Shot Prisoner In Hlk Cell.
Shreveport, La., (Special). After
.working three hours with sledge ham
mers and picks, 25 men broke into the
Parish Jail at Homer, La., and shot
"Dick" Craighead, inflicting wounds
which will probably prove fatal. Craig
head was charged with the murder of
Mrs. Isaac McKee, wife of Craighead's
half-brother, and her little son.
FINANCIAL
Amalgamated Copper directors de
clared the usual quarterly dividend of I
per cent.
New York Central has fallen 16 paints
from its recent high level when the talk
was strongest about a merger with
Union Pacific.
Stockholders of National Lead voted
down a resolution to the effect that if
ever the preferred stock is retired the
price shall not be Irss than $140 a
share.
The fact that the Bank of England re
tains its 3') per cent, rate of discount
shows that there is no fear in London
over the financial situation. -
Grain men say that the Gates pool paid
an average of $1.12 for its 20,000,000
bushels of May wheat. The price tum
bled five cents.
Almost four times as many shares of
stock have changed hands in Philadel
phia so far in 1905 as were bought and
sold in the same period of last year.
Baltimore 4 Ohio makes an excellent
report for March. Gross earnings in
creased $380,413 and net profits gained
$214,203 over the same month last year,
RESULT IN TARIFF WAR'
Cermany'i Exclusion of the United
Stat;s.
AMBASSADOR TOWER'S HARD TASK.
Stands Ready, However to Negotiate a Reel
proctty TreafyQtrraao Olllclals Say United
States Cannot Reaiooably Expect to Share
In Special Benefits Olven to European Stales
In Exchange for Tarlfl Reductions.
Berlin, (By Cable). The Imperial
Government, preparatory to excluding
the United States from the privileges of
the new reciprocity treaty signed re
cency with seven European states, has
formally notified the American Govern
ment that the tariff agreement between
Germany and the United States of July
10, 1900, will terminate March 1, 1906,
the day the new treaties go into effect,
but that Germany stands ready to nego
tiate a reciprocity treaty with the Uni
ted States.
This notification, made by Foreign
Secretary von Richthofcn March 14
after the decjsion of the Cabinet, said
that the treaties concluded with Rus
sia, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria-Hungary,
Roumania and Servia
"form a new basis," so reads the text,
"for the commercial relations of Ger
many, and the Imperial Government
holds itself prepared to enter into ne
gotiations for the conclusion of a new
commercial treaty with the United
States."
The German view, as held at the
Foreign Office and at the Ministry of
the Interior, is that the United Statej
cannot reasonably expect to share in
special benefits given by Germany to
certain European states in exchange for
other specific tariff reductions. Should
the United States have the same ad
vantage without giving anything in re
turn treaty countries could justly com
plain that they were in effect discrimi
nated against because from them certain
things were exacted by bargain which
were freely given to the United States,
But if the United States desires to
take np the general tariff question and
arrange a reciprocal agreement Germany
.will be very glad to do so. Otherwise
uermany s new general taritt, wlncll
goes into effect March 1, 1906, will be
applied to imports from the United
States.
The Government in terminating the
present modus vivendi has done what
the agrarians hav? steadily asked for
since the new commercial treaties were
concluded. Public opinion in Germany
has also been fully prepared for the
Government's act by publications of the
Commercial Treaty Association and the
Central European Industrial League
and articles in the principal financial
periodicals written by persons in affilia
tion with the Ministry of the Interior.
Washington has not yet replied to
Germany's proposal.
THREE BEARS FOR ROOSEVELT.
Oreat Success of the Colorado Hunting
Trip.
Glenwood Springs, Col., (Specials
President Roosevelt's hunting trip has
been crowned with success far beyond
his expectations or those of the most
sanguine of his guides. Three bears
were killed by the party Monday and
two Tuesday, one by the President and
one by Dr. Lambert. P. B. Stewart,
of Colorado Springs, one of the Presi
dent's hunting companions, arrived here,
accompanied by Courier Chapman. They
brought the story of the hunt. The
killing of the three bears was telephoned
to them, and they understood that Presi
dent Roosevelt brought down two of.
them, but details are lacking.
The party is almost snowbound in its
present location, and no attempt will
be made to cross the divide. Fifteen
.feet of snow is on the ground on the
other side, and any effort to reach Red
stone would be futile.- The hunters
are satisfied, however, for they have
reached the center of what the guides
say is the best bear country in Colorado.
Bobcats are thick in the country now
being hunted so plentiful," in fact, that
many are allowed to escape without a
shot being fired in their direction. Sev
eral fine skins have been taken, however.
The bear killed by the President Tues
day was of the brown variety, not so,
heavy, but furnishing a much finer pelt
than the first animal killed. One of the
bears killed is said to be a grizzly, but
this cannot be verified. 5
i SHOT BY AN EX0NVICT.
An Old Man and His Daughter Wounded By
Morris Cremeans. '
Richmond, Va., (Special). Morrisi
Cremeans, who completed a penitentiary!
sentence here a few days ago, is in
jail at Pearsisburg, in Giles county,
charged with shooting an old man named'
Kidd and his daughter because they re
fused to take him in at their little moun
tain cabin. Cremeans shot through the
door with a shotgun at the old man
and fired a second shot, hitting the
daughter in the leg, and then fled.
A posse from Bluefield hearing that
Cremeans was making for his home in
that city secreted themselves in a moun
tain path, and he walked into the trap
and was captured with a cocked shot
gun in his hands. There L considerable
feeling against Cremeans. The old man
is thought to be fatally wounded.
Anti-Trust BUI la Michigan.
-Lansing, Mich., (Special). The low
er houie of the Michigan legislature
passed unanimously the Bland Ami
Trust Bill. It is said to be tho niosj
sweeping unti-trust .measure ever passed
In the country. It defies and declares
illegal all corporations which aim at the
monopoly of any business, trade, avoca.
tion or profession, and nullifies any
agreement binding individuals not to
engage in a certain occupation.
Lawyers Have Pistol Duet
Birmingham, Ala., Speoial). R. l
Leathcrwood and W. A. Denson, promi
nent" young lawyers, engaged in a pistol
duel on South Twentieth street, in,
the retail district. Ten shots were fired,
a negro drayman being wounded in the!
leg and neck. He will probably recover,
Leatherwood is in jail. The shooting
grew out of a . feud which began lastj
year by each of the participants reporting
the other to the State Bar Association
for alleged Wtlaticn of legal ethics. ,