THE FILIPINOS
ARE TREACHEROUS
Details 'Of the Battle With the
Constabulary.
WERE LOSING BEFORE CAMERA.
Natives Preteaded They Wanted fe Surrender
aad Aek to Have Picture Taken el Tbia
aelvee. Bat When Thcjr Were Peeed Before
lb Camera, a Whistle Wai Blown tad Tbijr
Rushed Us on be Coetlabulary.
Manila, (Uy Cable). According to
advices received here, the recent fight
at Magtaon, Samar, between the con
stabulary and Fulajanej was the result
of base treachery on the part of the na
tives. As a result of the right, 30 1'ula
jancs were killed and 16 of the consta
bulary were killed and wounded.
A dispatch received from Captain
Jones, of the constabulary nt Magtaon,
says that on March 23. Governor Curry,
Judge l.obingcr and Superintendent of
Schools Hoover, arrived here and camped
over niglit near the I'ulajancs. The
presence of the official was made known
to ihc rebellious natives, and their leader
announced that he would surrender his
force the next day.
As a result of this promise the Ameri
cans returned to the town of Magtaon,
.accompanied by Colonel Aguilar, a Pula
janc chief.
The next day (Saturday) four chiefs
of the Pulajanes, with over 100 men and
14 cutis, appeared at Magta.in and lined
up in front of the constabulary barricks.
.Between the barricks and the Pulajancs
stood the group of American officials.
One of the chiefs expressed a wish
that his party be photographed in the
act of surrendering, and Superintendent
Hoover, in compliance with the request,
was adjusting his camera, wtien the Pula
jancs' leader blew a whistle and gave an
order to advance. The entire party of
natives thereupon rushed upon the
American officials, who escaped to the
Magtaon River and swam to the op
posite bank.
When the treachery of the natives was
apparent the constabulary immediately
opened fire and a fierce fight ensued, ir
whicli the ronstnbulary gained a decisive
victory. The Pulajanes were chased to
the mountains, but the pursuers lost
more gurs than they captured.
The American officials were later found
with the exception of Governor Curry.
He was last seen being chased by Pula
janes, and it is now believed he is hiding
in the dense brush in that locality.
Three hundred constabulary are now
on the trail of the fugitive natives and
searching for Governor Curry.
"SCOTTV" PLACED UNDER ARREST.
Accused of Ambushing a Parly He Was Coo-
duciiof to His Alleged Mint.
San Francisco, Cal., (Special) "Scot
ty," the Death Valley miner, who has
: been in the limelight because of a rapid
trip across the country on the Santa Fe
ami his stories of a fabulously rich mine
in the desert, was arrested here on'a war
rant from San Ucrnandino charging him
with being concerned in the shooting
of his brother Warren and ambushing
a party of Boston mining men, with a
mining expert, while he was acting as
their guide.
"Scotty" secured bail after being in
jail about four hours, and appeared at
the Grand Opera House in a melodrama.
Monday he must answer the charge made
against him at San Bernandino.
"Scotty's" brother and another mem
ber of the party declare that "Scotty" ar
ranged the ambush at Wingate Pass and
that it was planned to shoot the mining
expert. In the confusion Warren Scott
received a dangerous wound through the
thigh and will not be out for several
weeks.
The theory of the Boston men is that
"Scotty" did not want the expert to in
vestigate his mine and hence devised
this ambuscade to frighten the party off.
Cotllu Too Big For Door.
Wilmington, DeL, (Special). In or
der that the body of Mrs. Johanna
'Worth, a well-known woman who weigh
ted more than 400 pounds, could be re
moved from her home, 1134 Walnut
Street here, it was necessary to tear
away a part of the front of the building.
The coffin was so missive that it was
impossible to take it through any of the
doors or windows. A number of the
mourners sertiTed picks and finally made
a hole large enough in the wall to permit
the coffin to be removed and put in the
'hearse.
Miss Aaifcoof Jiooored.
!New York ( Sjieciiil ) . Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Call presided t a meeting of
appreciation of the life and work of the
late 'Susan B. Anthony, held in the
Hudturi Theater, and attended by several
hundred women. The meeting was un-W-r
the auspices of the Interorlan Poli
tical Equality Council of Ivew York.
Mrs. L.i;!ie lVvcrcaux Bhk-e spoke of
"Miss Anthony and the Civil Kight of
Women;" W. M. Ivins, the Republican
nominee frr the New York mayoralty
last fall, read an address on "Mifcs An
thony, the Reformer."
Blew Himself He.
Hazleton, r'a, ( Special). Herman
Recklutg, of 'West Haleton, committed
suicide in a horrible manner. He tWd
a stick (A dynamite about his neck and
struck it with a hammer. Reckling's
head wat torn into shreds.
Mock Hanging For a 807.
Coming, N. Y (Special). A special
from Coudersport, la., says that in im
itation of the recent hanging of Charles
Brewster o Coudetsport two school
boys of West Branch hanged Eddie Bent
ley, their schoolmate, to the bell rope of
a schoolhous in West Branch while
''playing sheriff " He was unconscious
when cut down by his teacher and a phy
sician said he barely escaped with his
life. Clarence Campbell and Clenn Jlults
are accused of the hanging
Doub'e Murder Over (llrl.
Manguin, Okla., (Special). At the
home of William Rotewcil, a farmer,
near Kdley, Robert Vinson, of Bradford,
Ark., aged 70 years, was shot and mortal
ly wounded. Robert Regan, of Bradford,
who. with Vinson and Vinton's daughter
Katherine, was traveling overlund and
had stopped at the Roiewell home for
the nirht, has been placed tinder arrest.
Miss Vinson says that her father and
Regan quarreled during the night, Vin
son objecting to Regan's attention to
her. and that RoscwcJl was shot when
he tried to interfere.
LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
DOMESTIC
Justice O'Sullivan, of General Ses
sions, states that if intent to fraud is
shown in the insurance contributions to
campaign funds, officials of the compan
ies are guilty of laceny.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company
has taken action to recover $3,370,34 '-oo,
with interest, alleged to have been ex
pended by former President Richard A.
McCurdy.
The intersate Commerce Commission
heard evidence in New York regarding
underbilling and misrepresentation of
freight by shippers.
Edward Pullman, watchman of the
K.nanj Bank at Rochester, N. Y., was
shot to death by burglars he surprised
in the Lank.
The xestcrn Pacific Railroad bus. con
cluded the purchase of extensive ter
minal facilities in San Francisco to cost
about $7,000,000.
The Peary Arctic Club dispatched its
annual mail to Commander Peary, the
explorer, now in the Arctic regions.
Miss Grace illner, aged 28, was shot
and killed at Mansfield, O., by Roy
Shanks, who then committed suicide.
A larjrr power-house of the Philadel
phia Rapid Transit Company in that city
was burned. Los, $175,000.
Major David Price, on trial by court
martial in New York, declared that the
total abstinence pledge exacted from him
in 19x13 by an army examining board
was absolutely illegal.
Rev. John S. Cheek, of the First Bap
tist Church, of Paducah, died from pneu
monia, which resulted from the strain
and excitement of revival services.
The Grand Lodge officers of the An
cient Order of United Workmen decided
to temporarily raise the rates of mem
bers over 55 years of age.
George P. Brock, former cashier of
the Doylestown (Pa.) National Bank,
was convicted of misapplying t tie lunds
of the institution.
The Union Depot of the Chesapeake
and Olvio and the Louisville and Nash
ville Railway Companies, at Winchester,
Ky., burned.
Hattic Warren, a white woman, in tes
tifying against Robea Spriggs, colored,
in New York, said she had been kept a
white slave behind bars in a negro resort
for five months.
Judge Andrew Hamilton declines to
testify before the Fowier committee of
the New York Life Insurance Company,
but agrees to meet them before a public
tribunal.
President Roosevelt has decided that
he cannot interfere in the deportation
of two deserters from the Russian Navy
at San Francisco.
Prof. William MacDonald, of Brown
University, declares that the proposed
ranroau rate legislation is a step forward
in socialism.
The New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company plans to in
crease its capital stock from $150,000,000
to $250,000,000.
tuner rrutzman, aged 21 years, was
found dead at the door of the home of
his sweetheart, Mabel Treat, in Reading,
Pa.
George F. Baer, chairman of the com
mittee of seven of the anthracite opera
tors, has addressed a letter to John
Mitchell, president of the United Mine
workers, acepting Mr. Mitchell's proposi
tion to have another conference.
Attorney General Moody closed his ar
gument in the packers' case at Chicago,
and vigorously attacked the immunity
plea.
Twelve persons were injured by two
coaches of a Western Maryland train
jumping the track near Hanover, Pa.
Mrs. Anna C. Bell Hoffecker. an au
thoress, died at Ocean Grove, N. J., at
the age of 86.
IOKK1UN
Despite the order of Interior Minis
ter Durnovo prohibiting the celebration
of masses in Russia for the repose of
the soul of Lieutenant Schmidt, the Se
bastopol munity leader, requiems are be
ing .held secretly.
Russian government repressive meas
ures are only increasing the crime and
lawlessness throughout the country.
Everywhere the revolutionists arc fight
ing their oppressors with bombs and re
volvers. A launch owned by the Standard Oil
Company was seized and looted by pirates
near Canton. The L'nitcd States gun
boat Callao is proceeding to the scene.
Sessions of the Moroccan conference
was postponed until today. The Ameri
can suggestion regarding a mixed police
force will not be pressed.
The Czar, Premier Witte and other
members of the Russian ministry have
been enlisted in the great project of the
American - Transalaskan - Siberian Com
pany for the consruction of a tunnel un
der Bering Strait and 3,000 miles of rail
way to connect it with the Siberian Rail
way. The lieroizing of Lieutenant Schmidt,
who was shot Uir leading the mutiny in
Sevastopol, is increasing, and Russian
revolutionists are raising funds to erect
a monument ut his memory.
The Austrian Foreign Office considers
the announcement that Bellamy Storer
ceased hii connection with the United
States ambassador on March ly as a
most unusual proceeding.
A supposed French spy was arrested
at Essen, Germany, for offering a sol
dier money for a plan of the mobilization
in the Essen district.
The battleship Oregon, which arrived
at Honolulu, is reported to have devel
oped structural weakness and her big
guns will not be fired.
Eight out of 13 soldiers condemned
to death at Bobriusk, Province of Minsk,
for mutiny has escaped with the aid of
revolutionists.
Bandits who looted the Credit Mutual,
a large Moscow bank, of $432,500 used
bombs to intimidate the bank employes.
It is stated that former Ambassador
Bellamy Storer will take up his perman
ent residence in France.
Christian llauge, recently charge d'af
faires of Norway at Washington, has
been appointed minister.
King Alfonso has reappointed the Mo
ret ministry, which has consented to con
tinue in ciflice.
Three French army officers, who re
fused to order their troops to enter a
church at Rennet and assist in an inven
tory, have been retired.
A bill to place British and foreign
ships on the same footing was offered in
the British Parliament.
United States Ambassador White is
reported to be the author of a modified
proposal which it is believed will bring
about a settlement of the differences be
tween France and Germany on tne Mo
roccan question.
Twenty armed men covered the officers
of the Mutual Credit Society's bank at
Moscow with pistols and robbed it of
$435,000.
General Kuropatkin says the Russian
defeats in the war with Japan were
caused by lack of preparation and equipment
$1,480,000 FOR THE
JAMESTOWN FAIR
Appropriation Recommended By the
House Committee.
$200,000 FOR THE ARMY AND NAT!.
Direct Appropriation ( $250,000 aad $400,000
for c Pier al the Eipoeltlon Twe
Huadred aad Fifty Tbeaiaad Dollars
for Oorerameat Buildings $100,000 for Iba
Negro Exhibit.
Washington, D. C, (Special). The
House Committee on Industrial Arts and
Expositions decided to recommend a to
tal appropriation of $1,480,000 for the
Jamestown Exposition. Of this sum
$.150,000 is a direct appropriation. The
Exposition sought a direct appropriation
of $1,000,000.
For the construction of a pier at the
Exposition grounds $400,000 was ap
proved, and other items were agreed
upon as follows:
Government buildings, $250,000; gov
ernment exhibits, $200,000; rendezvous
for army and naval officers, $80,000; ren
dezvous for enlisted men, $100,000; trans
portation of soldiers and arms, $100,000;
for an exhibit of negro development,
$100,000.
The proposed appropriation of $40,
000 sought for building a pier at James
town Island and improving the island
was referred to a subcommittee, which
will investigate what rights the govern
ment will have on the island, which is
owned chiefly by private parties. In case
the government can improve the island
on satisfactory terms this appropriation,
doubtless will ,be agreed upon.
Under the liead of government build
ings as agreed upon there are to be the
following:
Main government building, colonics an
nex, aquarium, Geological Survey build
ing and life-saving station.
The exhibits, for which the government
is to expend $200,000, will include:
Life-saving, public health and Marine
Hospital Service, army, navy and light
house, wireless telegraphy, fisheries,
Smithsonian Institute, National Muse
um and Library of Congress.
MEN ENT0.MED IN COAL MINE.
Explosloo Wrecka Shaw Bros.' Century Col
llerjr Tea Dead.
Fairmont, W. Va., (Special). Ten
men are known to be dead, 25 injured
and from 25 to 75 missing and believed
to be dead as the result of an explosion
of gas in the shaft of the Century Coal
Company at Century, a small mining
town situated 50 miles south of Fairmont,
on the Bcllington and Buckhannon Branch
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The explosion took place at 4.30 P.
M...
The Century Mine, -which is owned by
Shaw brothers, of Baltimore, Md.,. in
one of the largest independent opera
tions in Northern West Virginia. Over
250 men are employed daily in the shaft,
and had the explosion been an, hour
earlier the loss of life would have been
appalling. As it was there were but a few
remaining in the shaft, the main body
of the miners having quit work for the
day. The giant fan, which furnishes air
for the shaft, was partially wrecked by
the force of the explosion, but was re
paired immediately, and within an hour
after the accident Superintendent James
Ward had a relief gang in the mine.
The first trip out brought 10 men
5 dead ana 5 badly burned. 1 ncy were
found in the main heading, near the
bottom of the shaft. The living could
give no details of the explosion, saying
that they were on their way to the sur
face when the explosion took place be
hind them.
A second expedition immediately went
down and explored the main heading,
which was found to be uninjured by the
explosion, except that the brattices were
blown out.
Four more bodies were found in this
heading, and 20 injured men were mak
ing their way toward the bottom of the
shaft and were brought to the surface
by the rescuers.
Immediately following the explosion
the officials began a house-to-house can
vass to ascertain the number of men to
be found on the surface. This resulted
in 160 miners being found who had come
out previous to the explosion. It is be
lieved that there are many more outside
who have not yet been accounted for.
If this is true, there are still 75 men in
the mine, with little hope of their being
alive.
NINE ARE SHOT BV MANIAC.
Barricades House,' Sets II Aflra aad Finally
Eoda Life Wlib Pistol
Brooklyn, Md. (Special). Walter Po
tee, a laborer and son of the late George
11. Potee, a former county commissioner
and well-known Democratic politician,
living on First Avenue opposite the Wal
nut Springs Hotel, in Brooklyn, Anne
Arundel County, ran amuck Friday, and
after shooting nine persons, set fire to
the home of his brother, and then shoot
ing himself through the heart, ended a
day that had been terrorizing to the resi
dents of the village.
His dead body was later dragged out
of the burning house by members of the
county and city fiqe departments, the lat
ter having been summoned to the scene
by telephone.
Potee was unqestionably insane, and
had been in that condition for some
months, as a result of an attack of ty
phoid fever. The tragic events transpired
while the bodv of John Potee, Jr., son
of Mr. John Potee, the brother of the
maniac, lay in a casket in the parlor
of the little home.
Measles Ruled Ship.
Philadelphia (Special). An epidemie
of measles was prevalcntin the American
Line steamship Haverford, which arrived
here from Liverpool and Queenstown.
Of the 890 steerage passengers aboard
200 were children, and a large number
of them were sick with measles during
the voyage. There were nine cases of
the disease when the vessel reached port,
and the patients were transferred to the
Municipal Hospital here. One child died
of convulsions during the trip and was
buried at sea.
Allowed lo Boll Cigarettes.
Lincoln, Neb., (Special). The Nebras
ka Supreme Court gave a decision on
Nebraska's Anti-Cigarette law, which
was tested in the court! by a young man
arrested on the charge of rolling a cigar
ette. The effect of the decision ii to
sustain the law in general making the
sale and manufacture of cigarettes in this
State illegal, but the rolling of cigarettes
by individuals for their own use is not
called "manufacturing." A few fines
have been paid and sentence served un
der this part of the law.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
2,099 Vcleraat Dead.
During the month of February, ac
cording to report issued by Commis
sioner of Pensions Warner, the names
of 2,699, Civil War soldiers were dropped
from the pension rolls because of death.
The net decrease, however, in the num
ber of Civil War soldier pensioners was
only 1,603, there being 1,096 added to the
rolls during the month. The total num
ber of Civil War soldiers on the pension
rolls February 28 was 673.935.
The total number of persons who were
drawing pensions from the Government
on account of service in the different
wars on January 31, 1906, was 093,2371
and February 28 the number was de
creased to 991,907, a net decrease of
1.330.
The complete loss to the roll during
the month was 4,21 1. Of these 3,901 were
by death, 74 by remarriage, 1 18 by legal
limitation, 80 by failure to claim and 38
by other causes.
Affects Retired Generals?
Inspection at the War Department of
the bill abolishing the grade of lieutenant-general
of the army after October 12
next, which has passed the House, makes
it appear to the officials that as it stands
the bill, though intended to wipe out this
rank only after that date, would really
relegate the grade of major-general on
the retired list, or perhaps drop out of
the army General Miles, Young, Chaffee,
Bates, Corbin and MacArthur.
This would follow from the failure of
the House to limit the proposed aboli
tion to officers on the active list.
Maoufacturers of Boston.
A bulletin issued gives statistics for
the manufacturing industries of Boston
for 1904, as follows: Establishments,
2,740, a decrease since 1900; salaried of
ficials, clerks, etc., 9,428, an increase of
23 per cent, over 1900; salaries, $10,464,
168, an increase of 28 per cent. ; average
number of wage earners, 59,160, an in
crease of 11 per cent.; wages paid, $31,
873.185, an increase of 13 per cent.; total
cost of materials used, $49,602,913, an
increase of 15 per cent. ; value of pro
ducts, $184,351,163, an increase of 13 per
cent.
More Pay For Retired Olllcera,
The House Committee on Naval Af
fairs made a favorable report on the
Meyer bill providing that retired officers
of the navy ordered to active duty shall
have the rank, pay and allowance of offi
cers on the active list of like iength of
active service. .If the retired officers be
actively employed for three years after
tneir retirement they shall, when dctacli
ed from duty, retain the rank and highest
retired pay of the grade they then hold.
Presldeal Vetoei Texas Bill.
President Roosevelt submitted a mes
sage to the House vetoing a bill passed
by Congress for the creation of a new
division of the western judicial district
of Texas, comprising the counties of
Uvalde, Havana, .Maverick, Kinney, vai
verdc, Terrell and Pecos. The President
says the proposed division does not have
enough cases to justify its establishment.
Bill Bars Jap Fishermen.
The House Committee on Territories
decided to make a favorable report on
two bills by Representative Cushman, of
Washington, regulating fishing in Alaska.
One bill prevents aliens from fishing in
Alaskan waters, and is said to be aimed
especially at the Japanese. The other
bill makes general provisions for the reg
ulation of salmon fishing in Alaskan
waters.
Waati More Life Preserver!.
Representative Sulzer, of New Y'ork,
introduced a bill providing that all ves
sels in interestate service shall be equip
ped with life preservers attached to
chairs. The number of passengers is
never to exceed the number of chairs.
President Roosevelt, in an address to
the Keep Commission, said he wanted to
correct the tendency toward bureaucra
tic methods in the government depart
ment, and he desired recommendations
for correcting evils by executive regula
tions, rather than by legislation.
President Roosevelt has written to
Frank Morrison, secretary of the Fed
eration of Labor, that he has issued
instruction to investigate all complaints
of violations of the eight-hour law in the
government service.
After a three-day session, the Ameri
can delegates to the third Pan-American
conference, to be held at Rio next July,
have adjourned, subject to the call of
Secretary Dean.
The Statehood Bill was taken from the
Speaker's table and placed in charge of
three selected conferees by the House,
the insurgents being again beaten.
Plans have been arranged for the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the new office
building for the members of the House
of Representatives on April 7.
The Senate committee authorized a fa
vorable report on the bill to incorporate
the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Ca
nal. The government attorneys are trying
to find a way to carry the decision in the
packers' case to the Supreme Court.
Secretary Bonaparte, before the House
Committee on Naval Affairs, urged the
construction of big battleships.
The Cnited States Supreme Court has
decided to investigate the recent lynch
ing in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Secretary Bonaparte was before the
House Committee on Naval Affairs to
advocate the construction of a drydocc
at Solomon's Island,
The Senate committee made a favor
able report on the bill to increase the
erficincy of the militia.
President Gompers and the executive
council of the American Federation of
Labor submitted a list of labor's griev
ances to the President, the president pro
tern, of the Senate and the Speaker of
the House. .
Governor General Ide, of the Philip
pines, sent a cablegram, saying sensation
al1 stories about Mount Da jo slaughter
was false and that the troops deserve the
highest praise for their heroism in put
ting an end to that gang of cutthroats.
A unique entertainment was given to
Seretary Taft, which was called a second
trip to the Philippines, incident of that
famous junket being reproduced at the
banquet.
The subcommittee of the Senate Com
mittee on Commerce completed its con
sideration of the bill to incorporate the
Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canat,
The failure of Congress to make an
appropriation ha! left many of our di
plomatic and consular officers abroad
without necessary funds.
Representative! of the wholesale gro
cers suggested several amendments to the
Pure Food Bill to the House committee.
AS INDIVIDUALS
. PACKERS IMMUNE
But the Indictments Against the Cor
porations Stand.
THE BE1EF MEN WERE COERCED.
Judge Humphrey Holds Tbat Persons Charged
Wild Combination la Packing Industry
Are Not Liable to Punishment en Evidence
la Hand, aa II Was divan Against Them
selves, Not Voluntarily.
Chicago (Special). All the meat pack
ers who were indicted by a federal grand
jury last summer on charges of conspir
acy in restraint of interstate trade and
commerce were granted immunity from
criminal prosecution under the indict
ment. While the individuals are to go
free the indictments found against the
corporatfons of which some of the in
dicted packers arc members and others
are employes arc to stand.
A decision to this effect was handed
down by Judge J. Otis Humphrey, in the
United States District Court, The argu
ments in the case were concluded late in
the afternoon, and Judge Humphrey at
once commenced the delivery of his oral
opinion.
Judge Humphrey spoke for nearly an
hour before indicating what the ultimate
decision would be. lie reviewed the case
at length in all its bearings, cited all
the essential facts which had been
brought out and concluded as follows:
"Under the law in this case the im
munity pleas filed by the defendants will
be sustained as to the individuals and de
nied to the corporations, and the jury will
find in favor of the government as far
as the corporations are concerned and
against the government as far as the in
dividuals are concerned."
During the rendition of the decision
the court was crowded by defendants and
numerous spectators. Edward Morris
and Edward Swift were in court, and
both smijed happily when the decision
was announced. J. Ogden Armour was
not present, but some men prominent in
the employment of Armor & Co., who
were under indictment were there, and
their joy was great. When the Judge
announced that the indictments would not
lie against them the defendants crowded
together and commenced to shake hands.
The attorneys for the defendants also
shook hands all around and then has
tened to the jury box to shake hands with
the jurors, who had been excluded from
the courtroom during all of the argu
ments made in the case and who re
turned a verdict in accordance with the
directions of the court.
District Attorney Morrison, who has
handled the case alone, with the excep
tion of the argument by Attorney General
Moody, sat with bowed head for a short
time after Judge Humphrey had con
cluded, and then walked over to the jury
box and also shook hands with the
jurors.
Immediately following the dismissal of
the jury, District Attorney Morrison
raised the question of the date for the
trial of the corporations. He asked that
the case be set for trial, and that it com
mence within two weeks. This met with
a storm of protest from the attorneys of
the packers, who insisted that they would
be unable to prepare for the case before
fall, pleading the number of witnesses
which it would be necessary to bring to
Chicago, the strain of the present trial,
and vanjous other reasons.
Mrs. Whitney, Authoresi, Dead.
New York (Special). Mrs. Adeline
Dutton Train Whitney, formerly well
known as a writer of books for girls,
died at her home, in Milton, Mass. She
was 81 years old; a daughter of Enoch
Train, founder of a line of packet ships
between Boston and Liverpool, and a sis
ter of George Francis Train. Most of
her literary work was done between 1857
and 1870. She was a contributor to the
Atlantic Monthly, Our Y'oung Folks, Old
and New and other magazines. Some of
her best known books are the following:
"Mother Goose for Grown Folks," "Boys
at Chequassett," "Faith Gartney's Girl
hood." To Double Cotton Crop.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Follow
ing a scries of experiments extending
over several years the Bureau of Plant
Industry, Department of Agriculture, an
nounced it had developed a number of
new breeds of cotton, seed of which arc
ready to be sent out for the next sea
son's planting, which the bureau claims
promise to almost double the value of
the cotton crop wherever they areused.
These new cottons have been bred from
the native and short staple upland va
riety and are from a half to three-quarters
of an inch longer in fihcj; than
cotton grown from the parent seeds.
Preis Button and Vo:e.
St. Petersburg (By Cable) The seats
to be occupied by members of the Nation
al Assembly in the Tauride Palace here
have been equipped with electrical ap
paratus similar to the system proposed
several years ago for use in the House
of Representatives, at Washington, by
which the members press buttons and
register their votes at the clerk's desk,
thus avoiding the delays of roll calls.
Johana Moil Cremated.
Cincinnati, O., (Special). The body of
Johann Most was cremated in this city.
There was no religious ceremony, but
some of Most's comrades delivered brief
addresses before the cremation, Mrs.
Most will take her husband's ashes to
New York at once, and the memorial
meeting is to be held there in a few days.
FINANCIAL.
The four retiring directors of the
Pennsylvania have been renominated for
re-election.
The Philadelphia Company's cross
earnings have increased $226,203 in Janu
ary and February.
When Missiouri Pacific fell two more
points to 93 Gould brokers went in and
bought liberally.
Steel gossip is to the effect that the
Standard Oil coterie owns 400,000 shares
of Amalgamated Copper.
Application has been made to list
$2,980,000 additional capital stock of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company on the
Stock Exchange.
A big firm of New York brokers has
borrowed from a Philadelphia bank
$100,000 for one year at 5 per cent.
This is one indication of dear money for
a long time to come.
Gross earnings of the Long Island
Railroad for 1905 were $7,824,986, an
increase of 10.4 per cent. Operating ex
penses absorbed $6,364,636. Net earn
ing! were $1,460,350, an Increase of only
tit.
A REVOLUTION IN SEBAST0P0L
Sailors Mutiny and the City Reports 1
Burning.'
St. Petersburg (By Cable). Most
sensational reports are current that the
execution of former Lieutenant Schmidt,
which has made a deep impression
throughout Russia, has been followed
by an extensive mutiny of sailors at
Scbastopol, the massacre of their officers
and firing by the fortress upon the city.
The truth of the story is doubled, this
being the "psychological moment" for the
appearance of such wild reports. No
press dispatches confirming the story
have been received, but if the report
should prove to be true the absence of
these might be accounted for by the
imposition of a censorship.
The alleged news came in the form of
two cipher telegrams to a prominent
member of the Social Revolutionary
party, such as the revolutionaries have
sometimes been able to transmit through
accomplices in the telegraph offices whe r
the public, and even the government ha
been unable to communicate.
As translated and displayed nt the of
fices of radical newspapers here, the tele
grams say briefly that the sailors, infur
iated by the refusal of Emperor Nicho
las to pardon Lieutenant Schmidt anr
their fellow-sailors, rose in their bar
racks and seized and imprisoned the ma
jority of their officers. The dispatcher
add that the city of Scbastopol is al
most entirely in flames.
It is also stated that a student at tin
Technological Institute has received I
similar telegram.
The admiralty affects ignorance as t(
the occurrence of any such affair. Thi
papers, in view of the menace of the nev
press law, which provides that they ma;
be closed up for spreading false report:
affecting the army or navy are afraid tf
take chances by publishing the story to
morrow.
Schmidt, Hero of Revolution.
St. Petersburg, (By Cable). Licuten
ant Schmidt, leader of. the naval revol'
at Scbastopol in November last, who wa;
tried by court-martial and shot neai
Otchakoff fortress, South Russia, witr
three sailors sentenced to death for mu
tiny, is being made a hero and a mar
tyr by the revolutionists. The boys o)
the St. Petersburg gymnasium struck ir
order to compel the offering up of pray
ers in school for the repose of the soul
of the Lieutenant.
The Russ prints a detailed account of
the execution, from which it appears
that when Schmidt received the news
that the authorities had refused to com
mute the death penalty he wept for the
three sailors, his companions, saying they
were so young and honest and he would
prefer to die alone. The condemned men
were taken to the small deserted island
of Borian and were shot at sunrise.
Schmidt addressed his executioners, 60
sailors of the cruiser Teretz, saying:
"I die for the Russian people and the
fatherland, and many of you, doubt'ess.
will h.creaftcr share my death for the
same cause."
Selunidt refused to accept the sacra
ment and asked not to be blindfolded.
He met his death with head up and
eyes open. The firing party was stationed
at .a distance of 50 paces Two of the
sailors were killed at the first volley and
one more at the third. Schmidt did not
fall until the fourth volley.
TWO BIO BATTLESHIPS.
Our New Fighting Monsters May Surpass
Iba Dreadnaught.
Washington (Special). The Ameri
can Navy is to have two new battleships
of the first class, the Michigan and the
South Carolina, cither of which, it is pos
itively asserted by the naval experts here
who know the plans, is as powerful, if not
more so, than the famous new British
battleship Dreadnaught, which was re
cently launched, and which the Biitish
claim to be the most powerful fighting
craft afloat. The plans and specifications
for the Michigan and South Carolina,
which will be sister ships, were drawn
and advertisement will soon be made
for bids for their construction. The bids
will be opened June 2.
Following the policy of the English
Admiralty, the Navy Department has
placed a seal of secrecy upon the speci
fications of the two new battleships, and
it is intended that when the vessels shall
have been completed the details of their
construction shall be as great1 a mystery
as those of the Dreadnaught, accurate
information of which has been exceed
ingly difficult to obtain.
II Worries iba Brillab!
London (By Cable). The American
Ship Subsidy Bill is agitating British
shipowners and builders and formed the
subject of a question in the House of-.
Commons, but Premier Campbell-Ban-ncrnian
said the government did not
think any useful action could be taken
at the present stage. The government
was unable to prophesy the probable
effect of the measure on British shipping,
but if the bill passed the consequence!
would, of course, be carefully considered
Mloara Aliened 20 Cent! a Week.
Pittsburg, Pa., (Special). Telegram.'
received here from Indianapolis stated
that John Mitchell, president of the
United Mineworkers, had decided upon
an assessment of 20 cents a week for
the local miners, to be used in case 9
strike is called April 1. Some months
ago the miners were assessed 10 cents
a week for a strike fund, but the order
was effective but one month. The miners
of the local district do not regard this
as a indication that there will be a strike.
Collage Professor Attempt! Suicide
Minneapolis, Minn., (Special). Ar
thur Upson, acting professor of English
literature at the University of Minnesota
and author of a book of verse, attempted
suicide by leaping from the Tenth Ave
nue bridge, too feet into the Mississippi.
He was rescued, but his recovery is
doubtful. His suicide attempt, his
friends suspect is due to a recurrence of
a severe nervous malady, suffered two
years ago.
French Olllcera Punished.
Rennes, France (By Cable). A coun
cil of war just held here has sentenced
Major Hery to a year's Imprisonment
and Captaini Clcrct and Spiraf each to a
day'a imprisonment for refusing to com
mand their troops to enter a local church
and assist in the taking of an inventory
In accordance with the law providing
for the separation of church and state.
The trial aroused widespread attention
in the army, as it was considered to be
a test case. The defense claimed tbat
the execution of civilian process! wai
not part of the duties of the army.
me KEYSTONE STATE
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Tbe Latoat Peanaytraala News ToM hi Start
Order.
The will of Mrs. Mary Cleaves, ol
Pittston, recently found dead in bed,
leaves half her estate to the Methodist
Church of Pittston and half to Foreign'
Mission Board of the Church. The es
tate is worth $3000 to $4000.
City Attorney McIIugh in an opinion
rendered declared that the eight lunch
wagons of Wilkes-Barre are to be class
ed as buildings, as they are connected
with gas, water, electricity and other
public fixtures, that they are compelled
to have a permit to conduct business,
and that they are violating the building
laws by being frame structures within
the fire limits.
Mrs. Mary Crier Roecker, aged 62.
one of the oldest and most successful
business women of West Chester, died
after a few days' illness.
Rev. Henry Alfke, for three years and
a half pastor of the North Chester Bap
tist Church, Chester, has tendered his
resignation to accept the pastorate of the
Parkerford, Pa., Baptist Church.
' Gordon S. Wilcox, or Shamokin, for
ten years chief engineer of the Mineral
Railroad & Mining Company, tendered
his resignation to take effect April 1. He
has acccplcd a position as chief engineer
and manager of a large corporation in
West Virginia,
Fire which originated from an over
heated stove destroyed the large general
store of R. R. Myers, at Burnham, near
Iwiston, and damaged two dwellings.
Corrctta Vanorman and Alice Ward,
who returned to the house in an effort
to save their wearing apparel, were ser
iously injured in jumping from a second
story to escape the flames. Loss, $5000,
partially covered by insurance
Burglars paid two visits to Darby
shortly before 3 o'clock the other morn
ing, when they forced the door of the
Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington
Railroad freight station, after which they
blew open the safe in the office of the
feed store of George G. Painter, Fifth
and Main Streets, and escaped. At the
freight station they secured about $300
worth of copper wire, while at the feed
store all that rewarded them for their
trouble in wrecking the safe were two
revolvers, which they took, and the firm's
books. Noise of the explosion aroused
all Darby, but by the time it could be lo
cated the men made their escape.
Mrs. Jennie Loper, a negro woman,
of Chester, died aged 49 years. Mrs.
Loper commenced . to take on weight
several years ago and when weighed re
cently tipped the scales at 701 pounds.
When the funeral director went to pre
pare the body for burial he was com
pelled to call on eight men to aid him.
An incorrigible girl was the cause of
her mother's death at Bangor. Viola
Rupp, 15 years old, was a witness in a
license case at court, and swore that she
attended dances given in a country hotel
and drank beer there. The Bangor
School Board had the girl's father up
for a hearing to show cause why he did not
send her to school. He declared she
was incorrigible, and he could do nothing
at all with her. In the morning the
requisite papers were made out commit
ting the girl to a reformatory, and when
the officials went to the home of the
Rupps to take the girl away her mother
fell dead. Grief and mental agony
caused by her daughter's evil ways and
the disgrace that had come upon her
caused heart failure. There arc ten
children in the family.
John Gallagher was instantly killed
and Howard Brownston, and J. H. Sun
der severely burned while fighting a fire
whicli occured at the plant of the Allen
town Non-Freezing Powder Company in
Allentown.
Despondent from many years of suf
fering from rheumatism, Harry Conrad
Rippcrgcr, better known as Harry Con
rad, ended his suffering by shooting him
self to death at Harrisburg.
The appointment of P. A. Sandborn to
be postmaster at North East, Erie Coun
ty, has been confirmed by the Senate.
The City Council of Lewiston set
Tuesday, May 15, as the day on which
they will call a special election for the
purpose of deciding whether they will
negotiate an additional loan of $50,000
for the purpose of paving the city's
streets. The propertx owners along
Market, Chestnut and Valley Streets
have offered to pay two-thirds of the
cost of paving if the city will pay the
other third.
Molders employed in Wilke3-Barre
and vicinty have notified the companies
employing them that they desire a time
fixed for a conference when they may
present their request for a new agree
ment dating; from April 1. They now
get $2.75 a day for ten hours' work and
desire a nine-hour day for the same
wages.
Oliver Hay, aged 32, fell seventy-five
feet at Boswell, Somerset County, and
escaped without a scratch. Hay was cm
ployed on the Merchants' Coal Com
pany's tipple, and fell from the tipple
into a bin of slack coal. He landed
along side of the pile, which was cov
ered by a foot of snow. The snow and
coal served as a sort of a cushion and
saved his life.
The engine on the morning passenger
train from Philadelphia on the Pennsyl
vania Railroad left the rails near Union
City. The train was nine hours late on
account of another wreck and moving
rapidly. Fortunately the train was stop
ped before it was derailed. No one was
hurt.
Auditor General Snyder announced the
ippointment of E. C. Dewey, of Clearfield,
lo be auditing clerk of the department,
1 position which the Auditor General
has created. Mr. Dewey is at present
sssistant cashier of the State Treasury
nd will enter upon the duties of his new
position on April 1.
Despairing over his fiancee's refusal
to marry him, Irvin Francis Miller,
tgecr 29 years, of Hamburg, committed
tuicide by shooting himself on South
Fourth Street. Miller was to have been
married o Miss Anna Gaenzel, Saturday,
but she declared the wedding off.
Brooding over his disappointment, Miller
borrowed a revolver from a friend and
put a bullet in his "right temple. Death
followed two- hours later. Miller was
married ten years ago and had been
divorced from his wife. Their child, 5
yean of age, remained with the mother.
While on his way to Amsbry, Cambria
County, David Mitchell, a coal miner,
was waylaid and stabbed by four Ital
ians, believed to be members of the
Black Hand, organization. They cut their
victim on the face, body and legs and
left him for 'dead. Mitchell received a
Black Hand warning some time ago,
but paid no attention to it.
William T. James, aged 61 yean, died
at his home in Scranton, as the result
of a fight in which he engaged two weeks
go with Albert Rodway, who was about
the earn age. Rodway knocked James
down and bit him through the lip.
James died from blood poisoning.