GREAT FINANCIER DEAD
Alpbonse De Rothschild Also a Tbilaa
tfcropist.
FAMOUS FOR HIS MANY CHARITIES.
Leading Spirit ol tbt Banker Rothschild In
Tkclr Relations Witb Oovernmente ol
Eirope Financed lha Indemnity Which
Franca Paid Germany Aller lha Franco
Prisalaa War.
Paris (By Cable). Baron Alpbonse
de Rothschild, bcul of tbc French
branch of tbc banking house bearing the
name of Rothschild ami governor of the
Bank of France, died at 4.30 A. M. of
acute bronchitis, aggravated by gout.
The eminent financier had been sink
ing slowly for many days, but there was
no apprehension that his death was im
minent, lie first took to his bed two
weeks ago. Several rallies gave prom
ise of his recovery. Two days ago the
Baron began to fail rapidly, and his
condition assumed a disquieting form.
Although he kept up an animated con
versation with members of bis family
and the old servants, the patient became
very weak, and entered upon a coma
tose state in which he died peacefully.
The announcement of the Baron's death
caused widespread regret, for, besides
his position in tbc financial world. Baron
Alpbonse was known for his lavish char
ities, one of the latest being the gift of
$2,000,000 for the erection of working
men's homes.
The funeral will be quite simple, ac
cording to the strict rule of the Roths
child family, including a plain coffin,
without mourning tributes. The serv
ices will be the occasion of a notable
tribute of re-pect.
A member of a French-American
banking house said :
"Baron Alpbonse was the leading spir
it of the Kothchilds in their relations
with practically all the Governments of
Europe.
"Besides the colossal task of financing
the indemnity which France paid to
Ocrmany after the Franco-German War
of 1870-71, he actively carried on rela
tions with other Governments. In Italy
these included both the Government and
the Vatican finances.
"The house also has large interests in
Spain, largely controls Austria's rail
road development and held considera
ble parts of all the old Russian loan is
sues. The house, however, has not ex
ercised a controlling influence in the
new Russian loans.
"The large industrial interests of the
bouse in Ru-sia include the petroleum
fields of Baku. The house has also had
considerable dealings with American se
curities through the Btlnmnts, J. I'ier
pont Morgan and John V. Gates, in
chiding Louisville and Nashville and the
Atlantic Coast Line transactions, and
also has extensive interests in mines in
California."
Baron Alpbonse was a member of the
Academy of Fine Arts, a member of
the French Institute ami a commander
of the Legion if Honor. lie leaves two
children Baron Edouard and Baroness
Beatrix. He has two surviving broth
ers Baron Gustav and Baron F.dmond.
President Loubet. Premier Rouvier
and many other officials, financiers and
diplomats called at 'he Rothschild resi
dence during the day to express their
condolences with the family.
Trading on the Bourse opened with
out perci ptible decline. The markets
showed some hesitation, but the an
nouncement of the death of Baron Al
pbonse de Rothschild produced little
tried upon values.
SUSPECTS FOIL PLAY.
Nephew ot Mr. Stanford Offera Reward For
Evidence of Poisoning.
Schenectady, N. Y. (Special). In re
sponse to a telephone query from this
city, Welton Stanford, who is now at
his summer home at Lake George, said
that he had offered a reward of $1,000
for proof that his aunt, Mrs. I, eland
Stanford, of Pan Francisco, who died
in Honolulu from the itTects of poison,
and information leading to the convic
tion of the person who administered it.
He stated that he had received official
reports of her illness and death from
the attending physicians from Honolulu,
and that he was not satisfied that she
died a natural death. He turth r said
he believed that she ditd from the ef
fects ot poison,. ;ind that no examina
tion of certain cap-,:!: , fnlminUti red to
Mrs. Stanford ihiritv.' her illness had
been made. Mr. Stanford was nr.;
named as a In in It ;.;rv in le. r v. ill, al
though lie inherited a )..'. -1:111 after
the death of Senator S;. :i:Vrd, her hus
band. Inl.'llng la Albania.
Cctinje. Mi.utenegr . 1 ?t)ec::.l ),--Fighting
has been in pn grc-.-, for three
days between .Mti-siiiiuaii.s and Chris
tians in the villages of Baritze and
Krupiszc, in the district of Ta-hlidzha,
Albania, and at Kossova, Albania, near
the Montem-gran frontier. It is report
ed that a nun. her of men have been kill
ed or wounded. The fighting continues,
the troops are powerless to restore order,
and re-enforcements have been sent to
the scenes of the disturbances. The
Mussulmans suddenly and unexpectedly
tUu:ked the Christians.
Three fc'mployes killed.
Wiliiamspo'", Pa. (Special). After a
-wild da.sli down a steep mountain grade
on the Susquihanua and Eagle-mere
Railroad, three employes of ihe road
were killed. They were riding on a
work car, and when il was too late 'o
stun at the head oi the grade they found
(hat the brake stick had been forgotten.
At frightful speed ihev crashed into a
train at the foot ofthe grade. Several
of he workmen -avid themselves by
jumping when it was found that the
en could not be stopped, and were only
slightly injured.
Four loitanlly Killed.
Canton, Ohio (Special). Mr. and
Mrs. Gust Miller, of Louisville, O., and
Mrs. Howell and her daughter, Anna, of
S-mth Bend., lui!., were Mruck by a pas
senger train on Ihe Pennsylvania Rail
fa.!, while- out riding, and all were in
itanlly killed.
Judge flwlng KlJcd By Train.
Cnio'.-.town, Pa. (Special). Judfe J
K. F-.vi-ig, of the Fayette County Court
otic of the most prominent juri-t- i:i
Pennsylvania, was run dov.n and killed
s hv a (rain 011 the Baltimore and Ohio
K'.iilio.t I-
KES IK SHORT ORDER.
Tte latetl Happening! Condensed fat Rapid
Reading.
Doaieallcj
Louis Levin, formerly in business at
tH) Bleecker street, who was arrested
in Baltimore and convicted in New York
of grand larceny in the first degree on
the complaint of William' Meyer & Co.,
who were one of the many firms that
accused the defendant of swindling, was
sentenced by Judge Fister to not less
than three, nor more than three years
and one month, in state prison.
The motion of Frank B. Lord, which
sought to restrain the directors of the
Fundable Life Assurance Society from
mutiializing the company, was granted
bv Justice Maddox in the Supreme
Court in Brooklyn.
t Winona Lake the report of the
committee of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Uiureh on forms of
worship was recommitted. The rues
lion will come before the next Gt icral
Assembly.
At Fort Worth. Tex., the Genera! As
sembly of the Southern Presbyterian
Church voted against federation, but
continued its committee for conference
with other branches of the church.
At the meeting of the Woman's Home
and Foreign Missionary Society of the
Lutheran Church, in Springfield, O.,
Mrs. P. A. Heilman, of Baltimore, was
elected president.
The First National Bank, of Barber
ton, O., has been ordered closed by the
Comptroller of the Currency on the
ground that the bank is insolvent. The
capital stock is $-50,000.
At Birmingham, Ala., Isaac Waltcs.
secretary of the Mississippi Cannel Coal
Company, was mysteriously murdered in
front of his home during Thursday
night.
Jesse B. Anthony, superintendent of
the Masonic Home, at Utica, N. Y.,
dropped dead just after reading the
burial service over an inmate of the
home.
One man is dead and several are se
riously injured as the result of a com
bat among rival gangs on the East Side
of New S'ork.
Former Judge Alton B. Parker made
an address before the Illinois Stale Bar
Association on "The Lawyer in Public
Affairs."
Charles II. Van Brunt, presiding jus
tice of the Appellate Division of the
New York Supreme Court, is dead.
At Topeka, Kan., Secretary Shaw gave
assurances that the government is not
facing bankruptcy.
According to New York advices, new
interests have entered the Norfolk and
Southern Railway.
At Peoria. 111., Richard Higgins was
acquitted of the murder of Mrs. Nellie
Thomasson.
Sections of Iowa were visited by frost.
J. Ii. Young, president of the failed
Goldticld Bank and Trust Company of
Gohltield, New, and Francis L. Burton
have been arrested in San Francisco.
The centennial celebration of the
Grand Commandery Masonic Knight
Templars of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island was held at Boston.
William J. Bryan, as administrator of
the estate of the late Philo S. Bennett,
appeared in the Probate Court of New
Haven.
A final settlement of the difficulties
growing out of the corner in Northern
Pacific Railway stock has been reached.
C. J. C. Wyngaarden left New York
commissioned to secure desirable immi
grants for South Carolina.
Over 400 mules perished in a fire that
destroyed the stables of Maxwell &
Crouch and Spans Brothers, near East
St. Louis. The total loss is estimated
at $100,000.
For the purpose of restoring order on
the Island of Sauiar, in the Philippines,
the military will -assume charge at the
request of the chief of the constabulary.
The four-story dormitory of the Rog
er Williams University, near Nashville,
Tenn., an institution for the instruction
of negroes, was destroyed by fire.
Erhard Adolf Matthissen, a former
partner in the banking-house of August
Belmont, died at his summer home, on
the Hudson River,
A passenger train on the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad was wrecked
near Columbia, Tenn., and eight per
sons were injured.
Wesley G. Parker, teller of the Arkan
sas National Bank of Hot Springs, is
mi--nig, and his accounts are short.
Yiliiam T. McKee was arrested in
Chicago on the charge of being the man
ager of a gct-rie.h-quick concern.
A deb gauon of more than 100 Meth
odist ministers marched in procession
to the Philadelphia City Hall to protest
against the proposed lease of the gas
works.
A 20-storv apartment-house is to be
erected in Brooklyn by well-known fi
nanciers as a philanthropic enterprise.
No family will be taken that has not at
lea-' one child.
lingular E. Turnberg and her sister
Dora, two young women stenographers,
were struck and instantly killed by a
pa-seiigrr train near Chicago.
The store and house of Vinceno Fa
lun. U. of Monessen, Pa., were dyna
mited because the owner ignored the de
mands of the Black Hand.
Jo-eph O'Connell, a boy, shot and kill
ed his father, Thomas O'Connell, in
Heliport, R. I. The shooting was done
in self-defense.
Foreign.
Hellmut We-sel will be tried at
Thorn, Prussia, charged with swindling
and selling plans of German fortresses
to France while an instructor in the
artillery and engineer school at Charlot
lenburg. The Federation of Labor Unions in
Paris is considering a proposition to
make a demonstration against King Al
fonso when he comes to the French
capital.
Chri-tians and Jews joined forces in
cleaning out the disreputable houses in
Warsaw. Private apartments where
women had been living under the pro
tection of aristocratic men were also
wrecked.
Reports from Zhitomir, Province of
Volrynia, say the tension between the
Jews and the Christians is increasing
and that both sides are arming.
The Council of the Russian Empire
has increased the appropriation for pub
lic education by $025,000.
Students have taken the places of the
striking street-cleaners in Stockholm.
King Oscar of Sweden resumed the
reins of government after his recent ill
ness, during which the Crown Prince
Gustave acted as regent.
Prince Nakachize, governor of the
Province of Baku, was killed by a bomb,
.and the chief of police of Siedlee was
injured in the same way.
The British ireanier Lincluden, which
was seized by the Japanese off Korea,
: is been released by a naval prize court.
H. N. Braitsford, a writer, and A. H.
1. McCulloch, an actor, were arraigned
n London Police Court charged with
training passports to be fraudulently
;-ed, and thereby endangering peaceful
I. -i lions between England and Russia.
WARSAW SCENE OF HORROR
Eight Killed and a Hundred Wounded
io Riots.
COSSACKS IIR1 ON THE MOB.
A Remarkable Conllict Between the Respect
able Jewish Socialist Claas and the Disput
able Elemeol Crowds ol Men and Boya
With Axes Smith la the Doore ol Disreput
able Monica.
Warsaw (By Cable). The riots be
tween the classes of Jews continues with
even greater ferocity.
The disturbances continued all day,
and were still in progress late at flight.
Fight persons have already been killed
anil too wounded, 19 seriously. The
damage to property has been consider
able. There has been 110 pillaging, but
the destruction of the furniture in the
various houses lias been absolute.
The mob, armed with axes, smashed
the doors and windows and brought the
furniture out on the streets, where they
broke it into small pieces, The owners
of the furniture in attempting to defend
their belongings were attacked, beaten
and even killed. Knives and revolvers
were used freely and many persons were
terribly injured.
A correspondent spent several hours
in the disturbed district, but did not see
a single active policeman. During the
day patrols occasionally appeared, but
they regarded the proceedings as merely
spectators.
The character of the disturbances is
unprecedented. The wdiole affair is a
conllict between the respectable Jewish
socialist classes and the disreputable
Jewish element. There are conflicting
stories as to the origin of the trouble.
One report is to the effect that the re
spectable Jews, tired of hearing the
members of their race called keepers of
disorderly houses, thieves and usurers
and other opprobrious names, resolved,
as the police were receiving brides for
protecting disreputable houses and per
sons, to take the matter into their own
hands.
Another report has it that Jewish
roughs, in the guise of members of the
Bund were levying blackmail upon shop
keepers, thus enraging the Socialists. In
any case, the Socialists seemingly de
termined on a crusade against the unde
sirable persons of their own race, with
the result that crowds of men and boys
are now systematically ruining the dis
reputable houses.
Extraordinary scenes were witnessed
when the crowds visited the better sect-ion
of the city and demolished apart
ments filled with costly effects. Ward
robes, pianos and mirrors were thrown
out of the windows. The mob in the
streets left open spaces for the falling
articles and then completed the work
of destruction.
In one place a quantity of valuable
jewelry was taken out and deliberately
smashed with stones.
The whole affair was carefully organ
ized. The leaders were supplied with
the addresses of the owners of disrepu
table houses, and scarcely a single resort
in Warsaw escaped destruction.
KILLED AND MAIMED IN TROLLEY CRASH
Ooe Car Stopped at Crossing and Following
Car Struck Ik
Baltimore, Md. (Special). As the re
sult of a rear-end collision of two elec
tric cars on the Westport line of the
United Railways about 12:30 o'clock
A. M., at the point where the Wabash
Railroad tracks cross Maryland avenue
in Westport, one man was killed and
about forty-seven persons, both white
and colored, and including men and wo
men, were either seriously or slightly
injured.
The motorman of the second car, Se
bastian Heldorfer, who resides at 1007
Ridgely street, is among the injured, and
at the hospital it was stated that his
skull is probably fractured.
The two cars were among the last
of the night to make the trip from the
river resorts, such as Klein's and Wern
er's Parks, etc., to the city, and they
were, of course, well filled with people
who had remained at the resorts as late
as possible.
The first car had left Klein's Park
about 12:05 o'clock and was proceeding
to the city. It went down the steep
grade on Maryland avenue, estport,
and had reached the point where the
tracks of the Wabash Railroad cross
that street. The conductor had alighted
and was lu-t about to signal the motor-
man to go ahead, as the tracks were
clear, when a second Westport car, which
had tieen following the first, came rush
ing down the grade and crashed into the
car standing at the Wabash tracks.
Fatal Crath la (ieorgla.
.Augusta, i, a. special). 1 wo men
were killed, one fatally injured, two
probably fatally and three slightly in
jured in a collision between a passenger
trolley car and a Louisville and Nash
ville coal car on Augusta-Aiken Rail
way. The accident occurred at the foot
of a steep grade several miles from
Augusta, near Clearwater, S. C. The
coal car broke away from the motor
car at the top of a hill and swept down
ward for several hundred yards, ac
quiring such momentum that when it
collided with the passenger car return
ing to Augusta it ground the lighter
car into kindling wood.
Baok Failure In Canton.
Canton.'Ohio (Special). The Canton
State Bank closed its door. It was stated
by directors that the failure was due to
investments made by the vice-president,
W. L. Davis. He gave as security to the
bank property valued at $170,000 several
days ago, but it is said that it will not
pay his obligations. Money belonging to
I he public schools of Canton is deposi
ted in the bank. It is stated by Clearing
House Association officials that no other
Canton bank will be involved.
Capl. flobion Marries.
Tuxedo Park, N. V. (Special). The
wedding of Miss Grizelda Houston Hull
and Capt. Richmond Pearson llobson,
formerly ot. the United Mates Navy,
took place at the cottage of the bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hunt
ington Hull, 111 1 uxedo Park.
Stage Held Up la California.
San Diego, Cal. ( Special )-. The En-
sanada-San Quentin stage haa been held
up not far Irom Ensanada, 111 Lower Cali
fornia, the driver shot and $700 Govern
incut funds in transit stolen. A posse
tiat started in pursuit.
S108E CARNEGIE HEROES.
The Commlsslosi Makee Awards at Money and
Medals.
rittsburg (Special). At the May
meeting of the Carnrgie Hero Fund Com
mission, which was held in the board
rooms of the Carnegie Steel Company
here Ihe initial awards were made. Nine
cases were acted favorably upon by the
commission. Three silver medals and
six bronze medals were awarded. Three
widows whose husbands lost their lives
in the performance of acts of heroism
were cared for by the commission, and
111 one case a money grant was made to
a heroine for educational purposes. The
commission made a grant of $io,nno to
the general fund for the relief of the de
pendents upon tbc victims of the Brock
ton (Mass.) disaster, which occurred
March 20.
The awards as made are, in brief, as
follows :
Miss Ernestine F. Atwood, aged 17, a
student, of Melrose, Mass., for saving the
life of Harry M. Smith, 36 years of age,
of Qniney, Mass., on August a, 1004, re
ceived a medal and $500.
Alexander Cameron, a painter, aged
27, of Lindsay, Canada, wat1 awarded a
silver medal tor rescuing George II.
Bryaus, an 8-year-old schoolboy, on April
4, I'.w-I-
Gideon King Marshall, aged 39, a car
penter, lost his life at Springdalc, Alle
gheny county, Pa., on May 25. t'X4, while
attempting to rescue Arthur Trtiby. Mrs.
Marshall was awarded a silver medal
and $500.
Sevmnur J. Leighton, aged 4'. a tna-
chinest, was drowned in the Morrimac
River while trying to rescue two school
girls on July 4, 1904. near Lawrence,
Mass. Leighton s widow was awarded
a bronze medal and S600.
Thomas McCann. aged 32, a draw-
tender on the bridge at Portland, Maine,
tried to save an 8-year-old schoolboy
from drowning on June 29, 1904. but
was drowned. Mrs. McCann was award
ed a bronze medal and $600.
Lavinia Steele, aged 27, a library cata
loguer of Dcs Moines, Iowa, on Decem
ber 9, 1904, saved the life of George E.
Hill, a law student at Iowa City, Iowa,
who had broken through the ice. Miss
Steele was awarded a bronze medal.
Lotm A. Baumann, Jr., aged 17, a
farnier, was awarded a bronze medal for
saving the life of a companion while
swimming near Penn township, Alle
gheny county, Pa., on July 17, 1904.
John J. Kiley, aged 44, a ticket-seller,
for rescuing a would-be suicide who
jumped into the ocean at Coney Islapd,
near New York, on August 15, 1904, was
awarded a bronze medal.
John J. Healy, aged 24, hospital at
tendant at Ellis Island, was awarded a
bronze medal for saving the life of a
servant girl who jumped into the water
May 10, ix4, with suicidal intent.
LIVED WITH BROKEN NECK.
For Nearly a Year Brooklyn Mao Survived An
Accident.
New York (Special-). After lying for
nearly a year in St. Catherine's Hos
pital, Brooklyn, with a broken neck,
Thomas O'Brien, 21 years old, is dead
His case has attracted widespread inter
est in medical circles, it being one of the
few recorded instances of a man thus in
jured living for any length of time.
O'Brien met with the accident last
August. He was calling on a young
woman, wlio asked him to fix a clothes
line that had caught in the pulley.
O'Brien leaned out of a window,
lost his balance and fell to the ground,
a distance of 20 feet, landing on his
head. The physicians then said that
the man's death was but a question of
hours. But O'Brien fooled them. After
remaining unconscious for a whole day,
he began to revive. He recovered the
use of his hands, but paralysis set in
recently, and soon the lower part of his
body from the waist down became im
movable. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
Major John M. Carson, the veteran
newspaper correspondent, will be ap
pointed chief of the Bureau of Manu
facturers, Department of Commerce and
Labor, to succeed Mr. J. Hampton
.Moore, resigned.
John A. Renson, of San Francisco,
under indictment for bribery and con
spiracy in appropriating public lands to
his own use, gave bond in the sum of
$15,000.
1 he Bureau of Statistics of the De
partment of Commerce and Labor has
issued a statement regarding the nidus
tries of Porto Rico.
An effort was made to induce Presi
dent Roosevelt to take an active inter
est in the affairs of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society.
Governor Warfield called on the Pres
ident and suggested that the remains of
John Paul Junes be interred on Peggy
Stewart Day.
Secretary Morton when he retires from
the Cabinet, in July, will accept the
presidency of a large New York bank
ing house.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
been advised of the failure of the First
National Bank of Lexington, Ok.
President Roosevelt received the Am
bassador of Brazil.
President Roosevelt will not order a
federal investigation of the affairs of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society
of New 1 ork.
Dominic Murphy, of the District of
Columbia, was appointed consul to Bor
deaux, France, to succeed the late A. VV,
Tourgee.
The further investigation of the Loom-is-Bowen
episode has been postponed,
awaiting the arrival ot .Minister Kus
sell.
Chairman Martin A. Knapp, of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, and
Commissioner Clements gave their views
to the Senate committee on the rate
problem.
Paul Grand d'Hautville, of Newport,
R. I., has been appointed secretary of
the American Legation at the Nether
lands and Luxemburg.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Taft had a conference with reference
to the Loomis-Iiowen controversy.
There is no basis for the rumor of
an impending general shakeup in the
President s Cabinet.
A new peat fuel is known as "Os
mond." The moisture of the neat is
driven out electrically and the residue
is ground to powder and made into balls
and briquettes. 1 he fuel has no smell
burns to fine ash and yields a great
heat.
fit llll- novel (fZtitrme i(
the
Lewis and Clark Exposition this year
will De a snanow iuku 2110 acres in
tent, in which will be many kinds
ex-
of
fish
Tli labp -will also rtnr-iin uhn,
125,000 electric lignts, which will illu
minate the water and allow people to
ihii tuh u they swim about
NEEDS OF SOUTH STATED
1 - 1
PaliaracDt Adopts a Number of Reso
lutions.
AN OPEN DOOR FOR IMMIGRANTS.
The Last Day of Ibe Parliament'! Seiiloni
Waa Devoted Lately to Ibe Consideration
of Resolutlooa Ask That Tobacco Tax
Be Reduced and Wider Markela Found For
Cotton floods.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Mem
bers of the Southern Industrial Parlia
ment called upon President Roosevelt in
a body, and each delegate was presented
individually to the President.
Mr. W. A. Erwin, of Durham, N. C,
a leading cotton manufacturer, in an ad-
dress to the parliament, mentioned the
President in laudatory terms and was
loudly applauded.
The last day of the parliament's ses
sions was devoted largely to the con
sideration of resolutions. Some of the
resolutions were sent to the table, but
some of them were tabled without dis
cussion as being outside the jurisdiction
of the work of the parliament. Finally,
before adjournment was taken, it was
decided that all tabled resolutions be
aded upon when the parliament again
assembles some months hence.
Prof. Gifford Pinchot, chief of the
Bureau of Forestry, addressed the par
liament on the importance of caring for
the timber lands of the South. "Noth
ing," he said, "is more vital to the con
tinuance of the industrial prosperity of
the South than the question of forest
preservation, and no question is more
pressing at the present tune. A largo
part of the natural wealth of the South
is in its forests. In the market value
of the product lumber in the South
stands next to cotton, Ihe census ot
1880 found the Southern States furnish
ing less than 12 per cent, of the total
lumber products of the country. That
of 1900 found the South furnishing 25
per cent. 1 he South, 111 yellow pine
alone, in 1900 furnished over one-fourth
of the total sawed lumber of the United
States and over one-third of the total
cut or soft wood. The market value of
the product of Southern lumber in 1900,
including Kentucky and 1 enncssee, was
nearly $ 180,000,000. The value of the
cotton crop in the same year, including
seed, was ony little short of $500,000,-
000.
"The plain and simple question which
lies before the people of the South today
is, Shall the forests remain a continuous
power for the production of wealth, or
shall they be destroyed in harvesting the
present stand? By the first method their
resources will be available for successive
generations. By the second method,
which is now commonly practiced, the
permanent impoverishment of the South
through the obligation of what should
be one of its leading industrial resources
will be brought about."
The Bureau of Forestry, he said,
stands ready to co-operate with States
in forest preservation.
Col. J. S. Cunningham, ot North Car
olina, president of the North Carolina
Tobacco Growers' Association, offered a
resolution favoring the removal of the
tobacco tax. He declared that tobacco
sells so low in the South that small
growers cannot earn enough to support
themselves growing it, and that many
negroes were abandoning their small to
bacco farms and going to the cities in
search of work.
Representative Bankhead, of Alabama,
suggested that there was no possibility
of the tobacco tax being removed by
Congress, although he thought it might
be reduced. At the suggestion of Sena
tor Simmons, of North Carolina, the
resolution was amended and unanimous
ly adopted in the following form :
Resolved. That as tobacco is the only
agricultural crop taxed in the United
States we urge our Representatives in
Congress to reduce the tax on tobacco.
A committee of which Governor Rob
ert B. Glenn, of North Carolina, will
be chairman will, by direction of the par
liament, be appointed by Governor Glenn
for the purpose of preparing a statement
of the resources, needs and advantages
of the South.
NO POWER TO INVESTIGATE.
The Prcsldnt Cannot Appoint An Equitable
Commission.
Washington, D. C. (Special). It is
stated that there will be no investigation
of the Equitable Life Assurance Society
by a Federal commission or any other
commission appointed by the President
The Commissioner of Corporations,
who has been inqtirinig into the law on
this subject, at the request of the Prcsi
dent, informed Mr. Roosevelt that there
was no legal authority for hnn to ap
point a commission of investigation for
a specific case of this character. Mr.
Garfield takes the ground that only Con-
cress can delegate such authority. The
law creating the Department of Com
merce and Labor empowers the Bureau
of Corporations to make general inquir
ies into interstate business, lint it is made
for the information of the Government,
except in such cases as the President
inav decide to make public.
In the case of the Standard Oil Com
pany, the House by a resolution directed
the present investigation, specifically
naming the corporation to be invest!
gated. Some such action by Congress,
it is held, would be necessary before a
commission appointed by the President
could make any inquiry into the luiui
table affair.
To Be Sent By Rooaevell.
Paris (By Cable). At a meeting of
the Council of Ministers under the Pres
idency of M. Loubet, Foreign Minister
Delcasse announced that, responding to
an invitation of the French Government,
President Roosevelt had decided to send
a military mission to attend the grand
maneuvers of the French Army in Au
gust or September. About 40.000 troops
will participate tinder General Brugere.
The piilitary attache here has heretofore
represented the United States.
Killed Man Sbe Thought a Tramp. '
McArthur, Ohio (Special). J. M
Specht, a farmer and miller, was shot
and killed by Mrs. Emma Flynn, former
ly of Columbus. Mrs, Klynn was arrest
ed on a charge of murder. She says that
late at night he noticed what she stt
posed to be a tramp looking into her
window, and that she fired through the
glass and barricaded herself in the house.
Mrs. Sprcht and Mrs. Flynn ars cousins
and the families have been on the test
of terms.
GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY.
Arlbur W. Macbea Oeia Another Penlteallarjr
Sentence.
Washington, D. C. (Special). By
pleading guilty to the charge of conspir
ing to defraud the Government, Aug
ust W. Machen, formerly superintend
ent of free-delivery of the Postoffice
Department, when arraigned under the
joint indictment with W. G. Crawford
and George E. Lorenz, received a sen
tence of two years in the Moundsvillc
(W, Va.) Penitentiary, and escaped trial
on M other indictments. The District
Attorney has agreed to quash the re
maining indictments.
In passing sentence Justice Wright,
presiding over Criminal Court, No. 1,
District of Columbia, said he would take
into consideration the facts that the
Government would be relieved of the ex
pense and time necessary to further
trials, and make the sentence much less
than if the defendant had not pleaded
guilty,
I he two years sentence will begin
upon (he execution of a like term given
him upon conviction mi Ihe indictment
on which Machen, Lorenz and Dillcr B.,
and Samuel Groff were tried about a
ur ago. One year will be saved by
Machen for good conduct in the peni
tentiary, and will reduce the total penal
ties on account of his irregularities in
ihe postal service to three year.
When the Machen-Crawlord-Lorcnz
case was called, District Attorney Beach
.-"sked that Crawford be first arraigned.
The defendant entered a plea of not
guilty, and Machen was then arraigned.
A severance had been asked by Uistnct
Attorney Beach for the trial of Crawford
and Machen, but this was denied by Jus
tice Wright. The plea entered by .Mach
en will accomplish the same purpose,
and Crawford will be fried separately,
a severance having been granted pre
viously for the trial of Lorenz.
Machen begged the permission of the
Court to explain his action. He said:
It is due to the Lourt, to my devoted
wife and the children who bear my
name, to my parents, to the counsel who
have loyally defended and advised me,
to my loyal and steadfast friends, and
to myself, that an explanatory statement
be made by me.
Although I did not directly or indi
rectly interfere with or attempt to in
fluence the competitive bids under which
the contract set forth in the indictment
was awarded and executed, yet I held
an interest in the contract and shared
in the profits accruing from it. I did
not know or supposed at that time that
I was violating the law, nor was there
sny intention on my part to injure or
defraud the United States. I am advised
by counsel, however, that the acceptance
of the. money alleged to have been re
ceived bv me in the indictment consti
tuted, under the circumstances, a tech
nical violation of the statute.
"Embarrassed as I am by my present
situation and surrounded with all the
disadvantages which are its consequence,
I am from that fact alone in almost a
defenseless position. I shall, therefore,
willingly submit to any penalty which the
Court may deem proper to impose upon
me under the plea , which I have en
tered. In my closing words, and with all
the force and earnestness at my com
mand, let me urge that my plea shall
not affect the interests of the other de
fendants under this indictment."
WILLIAM ZIEQLER DEAD.
Backer of Arctic Exploration! Pauei
Away.
New York (Special). William Zicg
ler, the capitalist and promoter of Arc
tic exploration, died at his country home,
near Noroton, Conn.
Mr. Ziegler's illness dates back to Oc
tober, 1904, when he and another man
were driving through the estate. The
horses bolted, the buggy was overturned,
and Mr. Zieglcr, clinging to the reins,
was dragged face downward. He was
picked up unconscious, and for weeks
was in a precarious condition. He was
hurt internally, and, to add to the com
plications, had swallowed a large quan
tity of dirt, which lodged in his intes
tines. Specialists from New York treated
him, and after several months he recov
ered sufficiently to go about the estate.
Six weeks ago he began to fail again.
The decline was fapid.
Then came a serious accident to his
adopted son. Playing in bed one morn
ing, the 12-ycar-old youngster was caught
on the steel hook of a folding bed and
tore a great hole in his thigh. The boy
was in a serious condition for a long
time, but he is now out of da'nger.
Worriment over the hoy and a return
of the intestinal trouble caused Mr.
Ziegler's critical condition.
A member of Mr. Ziegler's household
said : -
There was an understanding between
Mr. Ziegler and Mr. Champ, his secre
tary, that if anything should happen to
Mr. Zicghr the Arctic expedition of re
lief for the lost explorer. Fiala, should
go right along. Mr. Ziegler's death will
in no way affect this expedition."
Drowned Herielf and Bablel.
Dallas, Texas (Special). A special to
the News from Sulphur Springs, Texas,
says: "Mrs. Tip Sanders drowned her
self and three children in a creek near
her home, two miles south of here. The
oldest child was a boy 6 years of age.
The other children were girls, aged 3
years and 10 months, respectively. The
tragedy, it is said, was the result of do
mestic trouble. The woman's husband
left home ill the morning to work on
the public road. Returning for dinner,
he found a note on the tabic from Mrs.
Sanders telling him that he would find
the bodies of his wife and children i:i
the creek."
FINANCIAL
Money is going West from Eastern
centers of finance.
Philadelphia bank clearings were $26,
154,000, a gain of $11,500,000.
Fully three-fourths of all brokers and
traders now are on the bear side.
Vice-president J. W. Patterson, of the
Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal, has resign
ed, thus following President Ramsay.
Baldwin's has received orders for
tweniy locomotives, half of them for
the Seaboard Air Line, and half for the
Mobile & Ohio.
Railroads report earnings for the sec
ond week of May as follows: Minnea
polis & St. Louis, increase $6909; Chica
go Si Great Western, increase $7772; Wa
bash, decrease $22,150; Toledo, St. Lou
is & Western, decrease $4742; Georgia
Central increase $23,800; International
& Great North Western increase $28,
657; Colorado Southern, increase $24,
418; Southern Railway, increase $39,686.
Philadelphia interests in Metropolitan
Traction declare that the victory this
company and the Pennsylvania won over
the Belmont people in New York in the
matter of the tunnel to Long Island will
ultimately help the former company im-niciiicly.
GAME OF WAR STRATEGY
Generals Ajama and Linevitch Watch
Each Other.
SITUATION TENSE IN MANCHIRIA.
Each Side la Trying to Find Out Ihe Weak and
Strong Polnta of the Oilier A Number of
Enfagemeota ReportedReport That Com
munication! With Vladivostok Have been
Cut Denied.
Gunshu Pass, Manchuria (Special).
The situation is very tense. The rival
commanders are watching each other like
hawks, but (here has been no decisive
move yet on the part of Field Marshal
Oyama. Lieutenant General Rcnnen
kamff made a bold reconnaissance at the
cost of several hundred casualties. It ia
possible that it was Rcnncnkampff's cav
alry which penetrated southwest of KaM
umen.
A dispatch from Tokio May 22 sail:
"A body of the enemy's cavalry, dis
mounted, attacked Tanshed, on the
right bank of the Liao River, 13 miles
southwest of Fakumcn, on the morning
of May 20. After an engagement last
ing two hours the enemy retreated in
disorder toward the southwest, aban
doning 300 men killed or wounded."
Tokio (By Cable). Imperial army
headquarters made the following an
nouncement :
"On the afternoon of May 21 a bat
talion of Russion infantry and six squad
rons of cavalry attacked the northern
height at Chinyanpao, 10 miles north of
Wesyuanpaomcn, but were repulsed.
On the morning of May 22 a battalion
of Russian infantry and three troops of
cavalry advanced along the Kiriu-Tao
Lu roads towards Cliicnchentzu, and
one company of infantry gained the
western height near the village, but were
repulsed.
"The Russian cavalry on the right
bank of the Liao River commenced a re
treat on the morning of May 22, and
at S o'clock in the afternoon the enemy
had reached a point south of Talun,
which lies 17 miles west of Fakumen.
"With the exception of small colli
sions, there is otherwise no change in
the situation."
St. Petersburg (By Cable).- General
Linevitch under date of May 23 reports
that a Russian detachment successfully
attacked the Japanese trenches on the
heights north of the station of Chang
tufu May 21, forcing the Japanese to
evacuate their trenches.
The authorities here have no con
firmation of the report telegraphed from
Tokio to the London L)aily Telegraph
to the effect that the Japanese have cut
the railroad to Vladivostok and isolated
that fortress. The director of tele
graphs informed the Associated Press
today that there are two lines to Vladi
vostok, one direct by way of Khaba
rovsk, Siberia, and the other via Har
bin. The former is working and no in
terruption of the latter had been report
ed from Harbin, whence messages are
constantly arriving. Inquiries on the
subject have been dispatched to Harbin.
Later in the day replies were recerVed
from Harbin saying that both the rail
road and the telegraph lines to Vladi
vostok were working.
WARRANTS OUT FOR OFFICERS.
Qoldfield, Nov., Bank and Truat Company Hal
Closed Ha Doore.
Goldfield, Nev. (Special). The Gold
field Bank and Trust Company closed
its doors. President J. B. Young and
Cashier J. R. Boal have left town. The
liabilities to depositors are $82,000, and
the cash on hand $200. President Young
is in , San Francisco. He carried with
him $34,000 in promissory notes and
$23,000 in stocks, and wired that he
would realize on them in a day or two.
Warrants have been sworn out for
both Young and Boal, and also for a
lawyer named Burton, who was allowed
by Young to overdraw his account with
in the past three days $8,000. The prin
cipal sufferers are small tradesmen and
merchants.
LIVES LOST IN A STORM.
Serioua Damage Dene to. Cropa In Many
Seel 001 of Tex a a.
Dallas, Tex. (Special). Several lives
were lost and serious damage was done
to crops in many sections of Texas by
the terrific wind and rain storm that
prevail'd jn many sections. Streams are
out of their banks and bridges have been
washed away.
In the northwest part of Haskell Coun
ty fourteen houses were destroyed, the,
two children of Will Tounds, ncari
Marcy, were killed, and Mrs. Tounds
was found unconscious and will die.. Mr.l
Tounds escaped with slight bruises!
Two Killed By Cars.
Chicago (Special). Dagmar E. Turn
berg and her sister, Dora, two young wo-,
men stenographers, were struck and in-
stantly killed by a passenger train near
Forest Glen. They were in a group of.
five young women who sought to evadej
a freight train that was approaching on'
the other track. The other three cs-
caped injury. . ;
Extra Session ol Coogreis.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Presi-I
dent Roosevelt reiterated his intentioni
to call Congress in extra session on Oc
tober 16 next to consider railroad-rate
legislation.
A California Tragedy.
San Francisco (Special). It ia re
ported that a man named Peterson, at
Ross Valley, Marin county, shot and
killed his wife, hot his five children,
killing three of thein outright, and
then committed suicide.
Preildeot Paya For Trains. j
Denver, Colo. (Special). The Colo-y
rado railroads used by President Roose
velt in his recent trip through this State
have received money for the service, inj
accordance with his policy not to accept
favors from the railroads. The Pcnn-
eylvania Railroad received n check cov
ering the expenses of the entire tour,,
and apportioned the money among the
Denver and Southern-iind the Colorado
Midland roads, which handled the Pres
idential special while it was in this State.
Itallaa's Home Blown L'p.
Monassen, Pa. (Special). The fruit
store and Ijome of Vinceno Palumbo, an
Italian, were damaged by a charge of
dynamite, said to have been exploded
by members of the "Black Hand" So
ciety. No one was injured. Recently
Palumbo received a letter demanding.
$5,000 and threatening death if, he failed,
to comply. The letter was ignored. An
other was received, and treated in a like
manner. The explosion followed. Art,
investigation is being made by the po
lice.