BIS PALACE A PRISON
fear f Russia Cannot Erea Trust Bis
Guards.
TRUSTED TSOOPS NOW REBELLING.
Officers of tat Oaard at Si. Petersburg
InUra Lawyers' Atsenbly That Mao;
Oflkars and Namher al Troapa, Disgust
ed Wlla Qoreraaeat, Ara Ready ta Entlat
lar Freedom.
St Petersburg, (By Cable). While
he Sunday passed without bloodshed in
the Russian capital, and while the city is
outwardly calm, developments all indi
cate that a crisis is imminent. Although
the streets are filled with troops and re
inforcements are now pouring in from
Finland, the government seems utterly
powlerless to cope with the situation, and
many calm observers seem sircously to
believe that the present regime is tot
terinaj to its fall.
Differences have developed between
Count Witte and General TrepofF, and
while the precious moments pass the Em
peror, surrounded by the imperial family,
remains sliut up at Peterof, seemingly
nUl hesitating as to what course to pur
sue. The Emperor is practically a prisoner
in ins palace, and grave doubts are ex
pressed as to whether even the imperial
guard can now be relied upon.
Discontent is rife. Karly Sunday morn
ing the fourteenth equipage of sailors of
the guard who have been shut up like
prisoners in barracks on the Moskwa
Canal, demolished the windows and fur
niture, and in the afternoon a detachment
consisting of four officers of the guard
went to the lawyers' assembly and told
the barristers that many officers and a
large part of the troops were disgusted
with the government and ready to enlist
in the movement for freedom.
They asked for aid toward effecting
organisation and said they had discussed
among themselves the question of resign
ing, but decided to show that people in
uniform could help to achieve liberties.
Kven the Cossack patrols in keeping
idlers moving in .the streets seemed care
ful not to use their whips, and simply
slrove the crowds along before their ad
vancing horses.
A meeting of the Municipal Council
was held in the evening, at which a depu
tation of 30 members of the strikers ap
peared. In air impassioned speech the
ieader of the depuration presented the
following demands of the workmen and
affiliated organizations:
First A constitution and political lib
erty. Second That the city furnish food to
the workmen.
Third That the city refuse further
supplies to the troops and the police.
Fourth That the troops be removed
from the water works, or otherwise the
strikers would cut the water supply.
Fifth The immunity of the deputation
Irrwn arrest.
The council granted this last demand
and promised to reply to the other de
mands Monday. The council sent re
quests to both General TrepofT and Min
ister of the Interior Bouligin not to ar
rest the members of the deputation, but
the police, nevertheless, took them into
rastody. Upon urgent representations.
General Trepoff, an hour later, released
them.
The people are extremely nervous and
bordering on panic and are easy victims
rii every sensational rumor. Among
countless baseless reports which received
credence were that the Emperor had em
barked on a vessel and fled to Denmark ;
that General Trepoff had been killed by
a bomb, and that Vice Admiral BirilcfT
Imd been assassinated by mutineers in the
ISIark Sea.
With a strike in the government post
cJSce communication with the interior
practically ceased. Government troops
were placed in the telegraph office, but
mljr a few lines are working. Many
lines, including the land lines to the Con
tinent and to Libau, where they connect
with the cable, have been cut. At to
cloclc. however, the cable by way of
New York started, and Sweden was still
open. This is now the only thread con
necting Russia with the outer world. Ad
nriral Durnovo, superintendent of posts
and telegraphs, told the representative of
a European power that he could not tell
bow long cable communication with the
Continent would last.
The foreign embassies have discussed
the situation, but have as yet taken no
-steps regarding the safety of foreign resi
dents. As a precaution, the State Department
M Washington has been requested 10 con
fer authority for the charter of a vessel,
uid to hoist on it the American flag as a
refuge for -Americans.
The negotiations for a new loan will be
formally adjourned, as neither the gov
ernment nor hankers are prepared to
close the negotiations while the present
-situation continues.
J. Pirepont Morgan, Jr.. 'and George
"W. Perkins are negotiating with the
Hamburg-American Steamship Company
for tlie dispatch of a vessel to take them
off in case of necessity.
The university, the polytechnic in-1 i
tute and all educational institutions were
closed, so as to prevent further meetings
Vmg held in them. The university is
inrrminded by troops.
Even the druggists have struck, and as
there are many sick, the physicians have
divided the city into districts and aKo
have selected stations for the giving of
lirst Slid to the injured in cases of colli
sions between the troops and the people.
Snch news as conies from the interior
snows no improvement in the situation.
The government everywhere seems pow
crVss to break the great political jtnke.
Married Sixty Years.
rj.nsvi!le, N. Y., (Special). A sight
rl.at would have delighted President
Koosevrlt was the celebration of the
sixtieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Airs. George (ioho, of Ve:it SKiru, when
lfiey sat down to the festive board sur
rounded by their 14 children and a
rforrn or two grandchildren. The couple
were married in this village in 1845. They
ay aiow 81 and 70, year of age, re
Vprrtivrly. All their children are alive
and all at their many grandchildren ex
cept two.
SU killed la a Mine.
1'itt.burg, (Special). Six minor offi
cials of tlie Pittsburg and Westmoreland
Cual Company gave up their lives at
11.30 o'clock A. M., when they entered
. Hazel Kirk Mine No. I of the com
pany, at Hazel Kirk, Pa., 18 miles east
of this city, to ascertain if a portion of
the tnine was still burning as a result
of on explosion two weeks ago.
Hunter. I.avey and CUibonie were fire
rV-isrs. All the men were married, with
itTjt furnilks, and bad considerable
war..
THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMi8Tio
The rival Interstate Commerce Law
Conventions, in Chicago passed resolu
tions against the evils 01 rebates, sus
taining the contention of President
Roosevelt regarding railroad-rate regu
lations, and an address was made attack,
ing Rockefeller and Carnegie.
Former President Cleveland and Mrs.
Cleveland attended the Chicago horse
show as the guests of Paul Morton. Mr.
Cleveland Is on his way to deliver an
address it the unveiling of a statue to
J. Sterling Morton at Nebraska City.
A dress-suit case containing the arms
and legs' of the girl whose troso was
found sometime ago in the Charles River
was discovered in Boston harbor. Rings
on the fingers may lead to identification.
Washington is discussing the question
as to whether the President has or has
not gone outside of the United States
on his trip from New Orleans to Hamp
ton Roads.
Governor Pennypacker has commuted
to life imprisonment the death sentence
of Mrs. Catharine Danz, the Philadel
phia woman charged with poisoning her
husband.
Adolph Perbolmer leaped out of the
fourth-story window of an office building
in Chicago to escape arrest, and was
dashed to death in a crowded thorough
fare. Commander-in-Chief Tanner, of the
G. A. R., announces a number of ap
pointments, including that of John Twee
dale, of Washington, as adjutant general.
Secretary of War Taft and a party of
United States army engineers are about
to sail from Hampton Roads to investi
gate the Panama Canal.
Bank Examiner Moxcy states that the
condition of the Enterprise National
Bank of Pittsburg will not be known for
JO days.
Secretary of War Taft's estimate of
appropriations necessary for the depart
ment in iqo" is $I04,qK8,j7.
William A. Diier, father-in-law of
Clarence H. Mackey, died at the latter's
residence on Long Island.
President Roosevelt had a strenuous
time in New Orleans where the crowds
were great and the enthusiasm tremen
dous. An immense subterranean channel
which promises to surpass in size and
heautv the famous Mammoth Cave, has
been discovered near Glasgow Junction,
Barren county, Ky.
A verdict for $80,241 was given in
New York against Joseph Lester, Jo
seph H. Hoadley and Cyrus F. Judson,
in favor of William 11. Franklin and
lieorge J. Scott.
There was a run on the Trenton
Trust and Safe Deposit Company in
I Trenton, X. J., but the institution gave
evidence ot its ability to stand it.
Alonzo H. Whitman, convicted in
Buffalo of raising and forging checks,
was sentenced to eight and a half years
in Auburn prison.
Aubrey L. Rice, of Boston, was ar
rested, charged with the larceny of
$4,000 from the Puritan Trust Company
of that city.
Thieves carried off $8,000 worth of
silver from William R. Elfer's silver
manufacturing establishment in New
York.
A runaway trolley car collided with
another in New York, injuring 25 pas
sengers, two receiving probably fatal in
juries. Six bodies were taken from the ruins
of a railroad hotel which was gutted
by fire at Hot Springs, Ark.
FOREIGN
Prince Charles of Denmark will ac
cept the throne of Norway, following a
I plebiscite, November 1 J. King Oscar has
formally declined the offer of the throne
. . .. ..f I - r.t D I
Ui a pi nice ui uie uousc ui nei nuuuiic.
The Russian prisoners in Japan will
be transferred to Vladivostok on board
vessels of the Russian volunteer licet,
and thence will be returned to Russia
in detachments.
After a fierce fight Portuguese troops
captured a position occupied by rebel
lious natives in Portuguese West Africa,
killing 200 of the natives. The Portu
guese lost 15 men.
A fire 011 Georges Island, at the en
trance to the harbor of Halifax, N. S.,
destroyed storehouses, machine shops
and quarters occupied by the families of
soldiers.
The Mikado of Japan has done the
rather unusual thing of inviting several
thousand of his naval officers to lunch
eon at the palace.
The Spanish steamer Zuria went
ashore off the Island of Heligoland, and
nine of her crew were drowned.
General Andrade, Cuban secretary of
the interior, takes no stock in the rumor
that General Gomez is buying 6,000
rifles in the United States for the pur
pose of organizing a revolution in Cuba.
The Russian Admiralty has decided
to withdraw all the naval force in the
Pacific, excepting one cruiser, a gun
boat and some torpedo boats at Vladi
vostok. President Loubet left Madrid for
Paris. He, against his wishes, attended
a bullfight with King Alfonso, but left
after the first bull was killed.
The Norwegian bark Astrid was sunk
in collision with the German steamer
Schaumburg in Cuxhaven Roads. The
crew was saved.
The freedom of the, City of London
considered a great distinction, was con
ferred upon General Booth, of the Sal
vation Army.
A statue of Field Marshal von
Moltke, the gift of the army to the
German people, was unveiled at Berlin.
It is reported that a Russian battle
ship has been destroyed at Sebastopol by
incendiaries. .
The railroads in Russia have 1 been
practically tied up by the strike and the
industrial situation has become critical.
Witte spoke to a delegation and dis
cussed their demands.
President l.oubtt and King Alfonso
started on a day's hunt in the royal
preserve at Rio Frio.
In a crash between 20,000 students and
workmen and Cossacks at KharkotT,
Russia, small bombs were hurled at the
cavalry, and the Cossacks fired into the
mob. Many were killed and injured.
Anti-tax ciots in Chili were suppressed
by the troops. Fifty persons were killed
and 500 injured.
The Czar is about to pay a visit of
two months to Denmark, and will con
fer large powers upon Premier Witte to
act during his absence.
The strike and revolutionary situation
in Russia is hourly growing worse, and
attempts are now being made to cut off
telegraph as well as railroad communica
tion. President Koch, of the Imperial Bank
of Berlin, says that the international
money situation was now satisfactory.
Americans representing railroad and
other industrial syndicates are seeking or
closing contracts ill Russia.
The Spanish senators and deputies
favorable to the establishment of a Span
ish republic have been forbidden to per
sonally address the French President
during hia visit to King Alfonso.
ROOSEVELT IN A
CRASH OF SHIPS
Vessel Ran Aground to Save Execu
tive's Life.
COLLISION WAS IN THE DARK.
Owing ta a Mliuascrataatflog of Signals
lb Llghtboust Tender Magaolla soi lb
Fruiter Eiptrta Cant Together Below New
Orleaas Wbllt Ibt PrcsMeat Slept Tht
MagaoHa Raa Ashor.
New Orleans, La., (Special). Alter a
narrow escape in losing hfs life in a col
lision between the lighthouse tender
Magnolia and the fruit steamer Esparta,
the former having been beached to pre
vent her sinking, President Roosevelt is
now safe and uninjured aboard the
armored cruiser West Virginia. No one
aboard either vessel was injured. The
Presiden. was taken on board the Es
parto which struck bottom, while the
Magnolia, with holes in her hull, w.ts
run aground to prevent her sinking. The
collision occurred at II P. M. while the
President was asleep.
"This is the most strenuous birthday
I have ever known," said President
Roosevelt about midnight, when he took
command of the tender Magnolia, in
which he was going to the Passes to
meet the battleship West Virginia,
beached her safely on the river bank,
and prevented her from going down in
the middle of the Mississippi.
It was a closer shave than the Presi
dent himself was aware of, for the Mag
nilia had three big holes in her hull as
the result of her collision with the
steamship, one four feet long just above
the water line, and the breeze that was
blowing rendered her situation critical.
It was fortunate, too, that the Magnolia
was nearer the right, or west, side of
the river, where there are shelving banks
on which she could conveniently be
beached and prevented from sinking,
whereas the east bank is precipitous, and
if she had been sunk there her chimneys
would have been many feetunder water.
It was a startling finish to a most ex
citing day. The President was fatigued
by his strenuous reception in New Or
leans, and the Magnolia had scarcely
got into midstream when he announced
his intention of retiring and getting a
good night's ret. The Magnolia steamed
safely down stream until she reached the
neighborhood of Nairn, about 65 miles
below, when she encountered the Es
parta, of the United Fruit Company,
coining up the river. Both of the ves
sels were towards the east bank of the
river. Captain Proctor, of the Magnolia,
signaled to the Esparta to get out of the
way, as the President had the right of
way. Through some unexplained mis
take the signal was misunderstood, and
the Esparta kept straight on, colliding
with the government vessel, striking her
on the port bow, about to feet from her
nose.
It was a severe shock, both vessels
being badly damaged. One of the sailors
of the Magnolia was thrown from his
berth and his leg broken, and everybody
aboard the vessel was aroused by the
crash of glass.
The President was among the first on
deck, and at once took command. The
captain and crew were in a great state
of excitement, and the President and
Secretary Loeb, who has apparently
learned some of his coolness, were de
cidedly the calmest of the party. At the
President's suggestion the Magnolia was
run ashore, and was soon resting on the
shelving shore, where there was no pos
sibility of her sinking. The Esparta was
similarly beached, and the two vessels
spent the night close together.
After the accident the President re
tired to rest again, and enjoyed a good
night's sleep.
A $1,000,000 SOIL SCHOOL
Tt Be Fonad'et' la California By Ei-Congren-rata
Jay's Wife,
St. Louis, Mo., (Special). If the
plans of Mrs. Charles F. Joy, wife of
the former St. Louis Congressman, are
carried out, a $1,000,000 university of
which the object will be the study of
occult and psychic phenomena, the hu
man soul and all the arts and sciences
of the "new thought" not recognized by
established schools will be built over
looking the Pacific, near Santa Barbara,
Cal.
In addition to the university Mrs. Joy
proposes to establish a sociological col
ony where the science of life and the
laws, duties and responsibilies of parent
hood will be studied.
"The age of prejudice and bigotry is
fast passing away," said Mrs. Joy, "and
the world is willing to be informed on
what is really meritorious. This is the
foundation upon which the school will
be established. It will make a scientific
investigation of all so-called psychic
phenomena and will stimulate the inven
tion of instruments capable of register
ing psyeho-phyiical forces.
"I believe that under the progress pos
sible by such a university the time will
come when we shall be able to furnish
scientific proof of the existence of the
soul."
Few Bodies la Buried Kalis.
Asbury Park, N. J., (Special). The
bodies of Isabelle Spivey (colored) and
her three children Marie Louise, aged
to; Gladys, aged 7, and a boy of 3 years
were found in the ruins of their shanty
under such circumstances as to lead the
authorities to believe that the two little
girls had been killed before the fire
started. Their skulls were crushed. Har
vey C. Spivey, husband of the dead
woman, was not in the huuse.
Paris Jail For American.
Paris, (Special). Elliott Fitch Shcp
ard, son of the late Col. Elliott F. Shep
ard, of New York, and a grandson of the
late W. II. Vanderbilt, was sentenced to
three months' imprisonment and $120
line and to pjy $4,000 damages to the
parents of Madeline Mardtiel, who was
killed hv Sheuard's aittumnliil -it Cr
Onen on April 24. The jail part of the
sentence win not ue carried out while
awaiting future procedure by Mr. Shep
ard. Her Olfli Loaded Wtgoa.
San Francisco, (Special). The many
gifts received by Miss Roosevelt in her
tour of the Orient were taken from the
hold of the Pacific Mail liner Siberia
and transferred to the ferry for thip
ment. It took a commodious express
wagon and two stout horses to convey
Miss Roosevelt's gifts to the ferry
building from the Pacific Mail dock.
There were 23 cases bearing her name.
The largest box was 12 feet in leng'Ji
and the smallest was not less than 1
feet square. All the packages were
marked "Presents to Miss Roosevelt." i
TAFT GOES TO PANAMA.
Silled For the Istbmat oa the Bl Cruiser
Columbia.
Washington, (Special). Secretary of
War William II. Taft left here by boat
for Norfolk. He will sail from that
port 011 the cruiser Columbia for the
Isthmus of Panama.
"I am going to Panama," said Sec
retary Taft, "personally to investigate
the progress that has been made since
my last visit to the Isthmus. 1 also want
to be able to state to Congress from my
personal obsercations just how the mon
ey already appropriated for the canal
has been spent and just how much wilf
be needed during the coming year."
Secretary Taft is the Cabinet officer
responsible for the administration of the
canal zone and the work of construct
ing the canal, and for this reason he has
laid down the rule that he will visit
the Isthmus at least once a year. While
in Panama Secretary Taft will have a
personal interview with Gov. Charles E.
Magoon, of the canal zone, who is also
United States Minister to Panama. He
will take with him Maj.-Gen. John P,
Story, Lieut.-Col. William M. Black,
Major George W. Goethals, Lieut. Mark
Brooke and Col. Clarence R. Edwards.
The army officers, with the exception of
Colonel Edwards, who is Chief of the
Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War
Department, while in Panama will inves
tigate the question of fortifications for
the canal.
Secretary Taft, at the earnest request
of officials of Panama and the United
States, has timed his visit so as to be
in Panama on November 3, the second
anniversary of the independence of the
Republic of Panama.
Members of the Taft fortification
board who do not accompany the Sec
retary of War to Panama have arranged
for a trip of investigation to include the
entire Atlantic coast from .slarragansett,
in Rhode Island, to Galveston, Texas.
These officers have already made an in
vestigation of the coast from the Cana
dian boundary to Narragansett, and the
contemplated tour will afford them an
opportunity to ascertain what is neces
sary in the way of additional fortifica
tions for the remainder of the Atlantic
coast so that a complete report can be
made for the use of Congress. 1 he
officers will travel mostly by rail, but will
use such vessels as are available along
the coast to take them from point to
point.
Washington. Former Chief Engineer
John F. Wallace was present at the
meeting of the board of consulting en
gineers which is considering tlie ques
tion of recommending a sea level or lock
canal at Panama. The board is anxious
to obtain Mr. Wallace's views, particu
larly as to the time which will be re
quired in installing adequate machinery
to get at the maximum output of earth
at the Culebra cut and what that amount
will be.
MET IN HEAD-ON COLLISION.
Four Killed and Maay Hurt la Crash of Rock
Islaod Tralas.
Fairfield, la., (Special)'. Half a mile
south of this town a head-on collision
took place between two trains of the
Rock Island's Kansas City line, resulting
in the death of four and the injury of
15 or 20 persons, none fatally.
Both trains were going at a rapid rate,
when they met in the hills. Two cars of
each train were thrown off the track and
both engines were locked together by
the force of the collision. The engines
remained on the track.
Responsibility for the accident is
pla-ed on the train dispatcher's office.
Chicago, (Special). An official state
ment gives the number of dead as four
and places, the number of injured at
from 25 to 30. Present official informa
tion leads to the belief that the collision
was caused by the failure of the operator
at Fairfield to deliver an order for the
westbound tram to meet the eastbound
one at Fairfield.
Six Dead la Hotel Fir.
Hot Springs, Ark., (Special). Six
bodies, one that of a woman, have been
taken from the ruins of a hotel located
at the corner of Elm and Olive streets
here, which was gutted by fire. The
ruins have not yet been thoroughly
searched, and there may be other bodies
in them. The hotel was a two-story
frame building, containing 30 rooms. It
was patronized by invalids and cripples
who were under treatment. The firt)is
believed to have been caused by the ex
plosion of a lamp.
Cualllle Pleads Guilty.
Pittsburg, Pa., (Special). Edward G.
Cunliffe, the Adams Express robber,
went into court and pleaded guilty to
two charges of larceny, representing the
theft of 101, 000. Ctmliffe's action
caused much surprise, as neither the
Adams Express Company nor Pinker
ton's Detective Agency was represented
in court. He has no counsel, and the
belief is growing that Cunliffe is mental
ly unbalanced.
A Oould Express Ctmpaay.
New York, (Special). The Globe Ex
Dress Company, a Gould enterorise. re
cently organized, has signed contracts
with the Western Pacific Railroad
whereby it will have the exclusive fran
chise to operate over that road.
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
A free lecture series in the interest
of workingmen and women is to be given
under the direction of the University of
Chicago.
Among the little trades of Paris,
France, is that of selling food for birds,
either in the street or in a corner of the
market place.
Electrical workers in Boston, Mass.,
are trying to persuade the local employ
ers to sign a new wage and working
agreement.
Under the auspices of the L'niversjty
of Freiburg, Switzerland, a business
acaddemy for women only has been
opened in that city.
In Norway the average wage earnings
are $H8 a year. The average cost of liv
ing is perhaps less than in any other
civilized country.
A general strike of switchmen on the
Giand Trunk system is threatened, grow
ing out of the walkout of seventy-five
men in the yards at Elsdon.
For every $100 value of product the
cost for wages, materials and miscellane
ous expenses is $84.07 in Canada, and
$85.35 in the United States.
The union labor bank proposed for
Chicago is the beginning of a chain of
union labor banks which the leaders hope
will cover the country before long.
The Brotherhood of Painters, Decora
tors and Paper Hangers will have a con
vention for the first tiuse in four years
at Memphis, Tenn., on December 4.
SETTLE AOGLY DISPUTE
United States at Work Upon President
Castro.
OVER HIS QUARREL WITH FRANCE.
l olled Stiles Minister Rusiell Has so Interview
With the Bomheiilc Veneiuelaa Executive,
la aa Eodeavor to Arrangt lb Diplomatic
Dltlerencet The (Jolted States Ooverameol
Sees That Cutro Made a Mistake.
Caracas, Venezuela, (By Cable). The
government at Washington has commis
sioned the American Minister Russcl to
endeavor to arrange the Franco-Venezuelan
diplomatic incident.
Mr. Russcl has gone to Los Tequcs to
day to have an interview with President
Castro.
Washington, D. C, (Special). Pend
ing the result of Mr. Russet's interview
with President Castro, the State Depart
ment will not discuss its nature. It
should be understood, however, that he
will confine his efforts to a possible as
sistance in the solution of the Taigny in
cident, involving President Castro's "1
leged discourteous treatment oi the
French minister at Caracas.
The Washington government feels
that President Castro made a mistake in
this matter. Soon as it became known
that this was the paramount grievance
of France against Venezuela and the
primary cause for the dispatch of the
French squadron, the hope was resolved
here that F'rancc might' yet find a way
for the settlement of her troubles with
Venezuela without resort to force.
Recent conferences have been held at
the Stale Department between the Sec
retary and Mr. Jusscrand, the French
ambassador, and the Secretary and the
Venezuelan charge. The charge is lend
ing his efforts to a diplomatic adjust
ment. At the French Embassy, when in
formed of the effort of the American
Minister at Caracas to arrange an agree
ment between France and Venezuela, the
following authoritative statement was
marie :
"We are extremely happy to hear of
the very kind intervention of the United
States, and we are sure that under the
circumstances France would have been
glad to render the same service to the
United States. And the news of the
intervention seems to us all the better
because it will, without any doubt, en
able President Castro to reaiizc the error
made by his minister of foreign affairs,
and probably will have the result that
France shall not have to take recourse
to such methods as she should dislike
very much to use, but for which, in case
of need, all preparations have been
made."
The diplomatic incident which Minis
ter Russell will endeavor to settle arose
from the protest lodged September 19 at
Caracas by the French charge d'affaires,
M. Taigny, against the closing of the
Caracas station of the French Cable
Company and the expulsion from Vene
zuela of the manager of the company,
M. Brun. The Venezuelan government
sent the following "reply to M. Taigny:
"The government holds documents
proving that the French Cable Company
has accepted the result of the judicial
proceedings brought against it. The gov
ernment is only waiting to establish new
relations between it and the company.
"M. Taigny, the French charge d'af
faires, knows this, and therefore the pro
test can only be considered as an act of
personal hostility. For this reason the
government will abstain from treating
with the French government through M.
Taignv."
This note gave offense to the French ,
government, and France requested Ven
ezuela to withdraw 'hat part of the note
which gave notice that Venezuela would
not communicate further through M.
Taigny until he apologized for his state
ment that the French Cable Company
had not been treated justly.
This President Castro has hitherto re
fused to do, although it was announced
from Paris, October 10, that the Vene
zuelan president had made repeated ad
vances to M. Taigny for the purpose of
resuming friendly intercourse, apparent
ly intending to ignore his previous ac
tion in refusing to deal with the French
government througl M. Taigny.
The latter, acting on instructions from
Paris, declined to meet the advances or
to resume intercourse with the Venezue
lan government until Venezuela complied
with the French request that Presiden:
Castro withdraw his offensive action.
MUST READ THE PAPERS.
Professor James Gets Alter Ills Class
la History.
Chicago, (Special). Newspapers have
been ranked as a textbook at North
western Univtrsity, and hereafter' stu
dents in the American history class 01
Prof. J. A. James must come to the reci
tation rooms prepared to answer ques
tions on the news ol the day.
In a lecture Professor James referred
to an article in a paper Tuesday. Upon
questioning one of the students he found
him ignorant of it, and an examination
of the class showed that but two of the
members had read the paper.
"This will never do," said the Pro
fessor. "Hereafter I shall expect you
to have an accurate knowledge of cur
rent events as chronicled each day in
the newspapers, and 1 shall consider it
fully as important as the daily lessons
assigned from the text books." '
Mrs. Rogers Cao Appeal.
Washington, D. C, ( Special ). Mary
Mabel Rogers, under sentence ot death
in Vermont for killing her husband, was
granted leave to proceed on appeal-before
the Supreme Court as a pauper
without payment of costs.
Jealous ol Ooldeo Curls.
Chicago, (Special) Because her next
door neighbor's little boy had golden
curls and was a neighborhood pet, Mrs.
Annie Thompson is said to have made
live attempts to burn the house next
door within two hours. Neighbors also
declare that Mrs. Thompson's daughter
Isabella, about 10 years old, made an
effort to apply the torch to the same
building, but was prevented. Mrs.
Thompson and her live children were
finally arrested. The repeated fires and
arrivals of the engines and the police
kept the neighborhood in an uproar.
Lilt Tern For "Bluebeard."
Dcs Moines, la., (Special). --F,. S.
Blydenberg, Iowa's modern "Bluebeard,"
Sunday school teacher and philanthrop
ist, must serve a life sentence for the
murder of bis third wife. The Supreme
Court decided that his conviction was
legal and affirmed the sentence of life
imprisonment, with two judges dissent
ing. Two years ago, at Elogra, Blyden
berg was convicted of murdering his
third wife by giving her arsenic in the
Sunday dinner he had prepared while
the rest of the family was at church.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
Secretary Bonaparte has directed the
dismissal of an employe of the Norfolk
Navy Yard because he refused to keep
an agreement to lease rooms in his house
to a machinist's mnte because the latter
had to wear a sailor's uniform.
An order has been issued by the War
Department creating a department of
military hygenie in the military academy
at West Point.
The Supreme Court heard arguments
in the proceedings of the Interstate Com
merce Commission against the New
York, New liven and Hartford and the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Com
panies. Senator Elkins, chairman of the Sen
ate Committee on Interstate Commerce,
called a meeting of that committee (or
November 21.
A special examiner will be sent to
Pittsburg to investigate the affairs of
the Enterprise National Bank of Alle
gheny. The College of Bishops of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church met in semi-annual
conference at ashington.
According to advices to the Slate De
partment, the reign of terror in Santi
ago, Chili, is subsiding.
Lieutenant Commander Albert A. Key
has been appointed a member of the
President's staff. .
The Panama Canal Commission has
awarded a contract for 19 "5-ton steam
shovels.
During the 12 months ended June ?o,
10,05, o'dO persons were killed and I3,"S.I
injured as the result 'of accidents on
railroad trains, according to a report of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The report of the United Stales Treas
urer refers to the increased demand for
notes under len dollars as evidence of
the country's expanding trade.
The United Stales Supreme Court de
cided thai State Senator Green, of New
York, must come to Washington for
trial in the postal conspiracy case.
Secretary Taft announced that the gov
ernment would enter into contracts for
the construction of parts of the Panama
Canal.
Secretary Taft will recommend an in
crease in the number of artillerymen in
the armv.
Hunting for consumption.
Movement In Washington By Associated Chari
ties Committee.
Washington, D. C, (Special). The
Associated Charities Committees on the
Prevention of Consumption and Im
provement of Housing Conditions have
issued a circular letter to be distributed
throughout the city.
The Committee on the Prevention ol
Consumption proposes to deliver lectures
in churches, clubs, private parlors and
before organizations and institutions;
distribute instruction circulars in schoo's.
churches, federal departments, shops and
in homes where consumption is found;
conduct a dispensary, giving thorough
physical and bacteriological cxaminaliuu,
secure special diet for consumptives un
able to afford it themselves; provide a
sanitarium, easily accessible, where con
sumptive cases may be treated at mod
erate price, and prepare the way for a
similar institution to receive indigent
consumptives; assist the commissioners
in securing a municipal hospital for con
sumptives. The Committee on Improvement of
Housing Conditions proposes to urge im
provements in unsanitary dwellings and
to advocate before Congress a bill pro
viding for their destruction.
TWO MILLION WOMEN AFTER SM00T.
S jn Memorial Calling For Unseating of
the Senator.
Philadelphia, (Special). More than
two million woinen. representing the lead
ing women's organizations of the United
Stales, have adopted a memorial calling
for the unseating of LTnitcd Stales Sen
ator Reed Smoot. This was announced
by the executive committee of the Na
tional Congress of .Mothers, who met
here.
This will memorial be presented when
Congress convenes. United action was
decided upon at a meeting of the execu
tive committee of the National League
of Women's Organizations, which was
held in New York.
The women declared that Reed Smoot,
who is an apostle and in direct line for
the Mormon presidency, has pledged first
allegiance to the Mormon hierarchy,
which has broken faith with the govern
ment. Smoot. the women declare, controls the
votes of eight other senators, and fearing
that his power will increase, they ask
that action be taken at the convening of
Congress.
Ii was decided to hold the next con
gress of mothers at Los Angeles, Cala.,
May 7, 8, 9 and 10, iqod.
Llplon lo Try Again.
London, (By Cable). Sir Thomas
Lipton expects to again challenge for the
America's Cup in 1007. Asked concern
ing the rcpor's from America that he
had given up the idea of making further
efforts, the owner of the Shamrock de
clared he was as keen as ever, and that
while too late to challenge for 1006, if
all went well he would be at Sandy
Hook with a new challenger the follow
ing year.
Capitol lo Have a Rath.
Washington, I Special). In prepara
tion for the opening of Congress the
Capitol will have a bath this week. One
of the newest tire engines in the District
of Columbia will pump cold, clean waler,
which will be trained over the gray walls
of the great edifice until they stand forth
in much lighter hue. It will take marly
the entire week to complete the ablution.
Setboard Directors Slay. '
New York, ( Special).--The annual
meeting of the voting trustees of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway was held at
the company's office in this city to select
directors lo be voted for at the annual'
meeting of stockholders in Peler.sbiug,
Va., November 9. The old board of di
rectors was renominated without change,
but John Skclton Williams entered a
protest against the election of Thomas
V. Ryan. J. A. Blair, J. B. Dennis, T.J.
Coolidgc, Jr., and J. M. Barr.
Fairbanks Taking Degrtes.
Indianapolis, (Special). The corner
stone of the Methodist Hospital, tp cost
$.100,000, was laid. Vice President Fair
bank 1 and Senator Ik vc ridge spoke.
Vice President Fairbanks is taking the
higher degrees in Masonry, which ex
ercise were postponed to enable him to
be present at the laying of the stone.
Governor If. inly laid Ihe stone.
The powers have not yet decided what
steps to take to compel the compliance
of the Porte with their demands in re-j
gard to financial reforms in Macedonia. 1
NEW YORK AS SEEN DAY BY DAY.
New York Mitt, N. Y.
The oddest of odd causes for divorce
bas crept out in the case of Zcnus L.
Finnegan before Frederick W. Ghichtel,
master in chancery, at Trenton. Finne
gan and his wife lived together for seven
teen years before she discovtred that she
did not like the name and asked him to
change il.
"What I" said Finnegan in spirit, if
not in words "me change the .name of
Finnegan! G'wau wid ye, woman! Tis
me own name, is Finnegan, and I
wouldn't change one letter in it for the
best woman on earth."
So she brought suit for divorce, and
the Court freed her from Finnegan.
s J
For the relief of destitute artists in
New York the Artists' Aid Society and
the Artists' Fund Society are trying to
raise $150,000, from which amount nec
essary aid will be given a large number
who require temporary assistance, while
there arc about a dozen, well known in
lluir profession, who arc permanently
dependent. Among other art lovers,
William F. Havemryer is interested in
the cause and has contributed $1,000.
s0 r
Lodged fast againt the slump of a
tree in the Bronx River, near Yonkcrs
Station, the headless body of a woman
has been found, and the police arc in
vestigating. The woman in life was
about 5 feet 6 inches in height and
weighed between ijo and 140 pounds.
A wedding ring, with the initials "C.
L." inside the band, was on her finger.
A search of the banks is being majc for
the head.
at? a7
Vincenzo Abadesa, an Italian ped
dler, of 1 Hancock street, thought he
would get a little easy money by writing
blackmailing letters, and he sent one to
Joseph Traino, a laborer, of 327 West
Broadway. lie told Traino that unless
lie gave him $50 at the comer of Spring
and Macdongal streets Traino would be
kiiled. Detective Petrosini gave the
laborer two marked $10 bills to hand
over to the blackmailer. As the marked
bills were handed over Petrosini and a
:onple of other sleuths pounced 011 Aha
Icssa. a 10
For the hundred and twenty-first time
he police of the Mercer-Street Station
'lave made a raid on an alleged pool
room said to be conducted by "The" Al
ien in lower Sixth avenue. Two lum
lied nirti were found in the dark room
n the second floor of the place, but only
'wo were arrested. Axes and sledge
lainnirrs were u-ed freely in breaking
Into the place.
j& j& 4?
John M. MacRae, 20 years old, a
:lerk in the employ of the brokerage
inn of C. I. Hudson & Co., has been
urcs'tcd on a charge of taking $to.ooo
irom his employers. The alleged theft,
,t is asserted, was concealed succcssful
y for a lime by the juggling of acounts,
ml when arrested MacRae is said to
invc admitted that he took the money
ind lost it on the races.
tf 4
El-Hagg-Abudiillah .My Sadik Pasha,
Prince of the Mohammedan Church,
general of the Abyssinian Army, Minis
er of Commerce and Envoy of Emperor
Menelik to President Roosevelt, has ar
'ived on the .strainer Cedric. He comes
istcnsihly in regard lo the new treaty of
onumrce between '.his country and
Miyssinia, but actually his mission is to
-i tidy the possibilities of closer relations
vith Africa and America.
Set on fire, il is believed, by robbers,
Alio had first looied Ihe famous man
ion; the country residence of Captain
Frederick II. Biigher, U. S. A., adjoin
ing W. K. Vamlirbill's Idle Hour and
Commodore Bourne's house in what is
nown as the nonaiie Colony of Oak-
lale, I.. L, was totally destroyed yester
Jay. Captain Bugliei's house was the
incest ra I Ludlow home, where Admiral
licrtrgc Dewey and Mrs. Dewey were cn
rrtaiucd shonlysjificr their marriage.
By Director Smith's orders two little
black ge;e have been "taken from the
big Central Park Lake and put in the
Zoo's flying cage. They are Arctic geese
and worth $500 the pair. The Arctic
Herse appeared mysteriously in the lake
nbout a month ago. Director Smith was
nuzzled as to how they got there till W.
E. D. Stokes, of the Ansonia, wrote that
lie had liberated a pair of Arctic geese
in the lake, saying that he hoped they
would thrive, as they arc very rare.
Panic la a Church.
Washington, Court House, O., (Spe
:ial.) By the explosion of a gas ma
rine in the Methodist Episcopal Church
at Good Hope, O., Janitor Charles R.
Bell was fatally injured. The explosion
occurred as services were opening. The
janitor was blown from the cellar to an
adjoining room and was unconscious when
found. In a stampede for the doors
about .10 people w ere strampled upon and
hurt. The building was badly damaged.
H.N A NCI AL
There is a good market in Pniladclphia
for Southern Kaiiway.
Five cents a- barrel has been tacked
upon petroleum by Standard Oil.
Par and dividend are now familiar pre
dictions for Brooklyn Rapid Transit.
A Philadelphia Rapid Traiv.il director
says: "Brooklyn Rapid will cross par
il'is year."
"I sold American Locomotive common
it 5.1. That proes I doik't know much
about this market," remarked a promi
nent Philadelphia banker.
Cambria Sled's large orders for cars
from the Pennsylvania and the order for
rails from the Baltimore and Ohio have
not been fully reflected iuthc price of
the stock.
In Europe during the first nine months
vegetable foods have fallen 4 per cent.,
animal food has risen 7 per cent., sugar,
coffee, etc., have falleji.18 per cent., min
erals have risen 2j per cent., and textiles
have risen 1.1 pef cent.
Lehigh Valley again proved thai it was
a "buy" at 74.
"I think industrials will do relatively
much belter than railroad shares," said
James L. McCord.
Some Philadelphia banks refuse to ac
cept stale funds 011 deposit, "The poli
ticians give us say $500,000 of deposit!
and expect the bank to give $1,000,000
worth of obligations in return. It don't
pay us and we refuse the money." This
statement came from an official of one
of the great banks of the city.,
"The Pennsylvania'! freight train ca
pacity will be increased a third by the
new cars," says a Third street broker.
"All the 3V new cari are to be 100,000
pounds capacity, whereas many old ones
carry only 40,000 pounds. When a rail
road prepares to add 33 per cent, lo its
tonnage it is mighty good sign."