POWERS AGREE
AS TO MOROCCO
treat Conference Ends tith Peace
Assured.
AND FRANCE COMES PIT AHEAD.
Aabsssador Wblit, tbt American Deleg ste.Says
lb Settlement It Sstlsfsclory to Both Froocs
ad (ieruiny Important Changes la Euro
pesi Politics Developed bjr the Conference
Triple Alllsnce Vlrlnally Ended.
POLITICAL EFFECT.
France a winner over Ger
many in the great international
game.
She secures a free hand in
four Atlantic ports of Morocco
for five years.
She nets three shares in the
Morocco State Bank to each
other nation's one.
Reconciliation between France
and Germany indefinitely de
layed. Germany brought to recog
nize that Austria is her only
friend in Europe.
Italy in secret agreement with
France and the Triple Alliance
virtually ended.
Germany claims to have se
cured equal trade in Morocco
and to have checked French po
litical designs.
The power generally regard
the Anglo-French agreement as
a guarantee of international
peace.
Algeciras (By Cable). After a plen
ary session lasting until 6 o'clock P. M.,
the conference on Moroccan reforms
registered a complete accord and ap
pointed a committee to embody this ac
cord in a formal protocol. The con
summation of the work in the conference
vas announced in the following official
communication :
The conference has terminated its
labors and accoid is established upon
ail points. It has adopted a definite
text for the remaining articles concern
ing the state bank and customs. The
final article, regulating the distribution
of police at ports, is adopted from the
Russian draft.
By it France will policcc four Atlantic
ports Mogador, Safti, Magazan and
Rabat and Spain two Tetuan and La
rache. France and Spain together will
police Tangier and Casablanca, subject
to an inspector of police. The Dutch
delegate announced that his government
declined to appoint an officer. The con
ference has appointed a special committee
to revise the texts of the agreement.
This committee will meet Monday to
consider the final formalities of the pro
tocol. The duration of this police agreement
ws fixed at five years.
The settlement of the question of the
State Bank of Morocco gives France
three shares, including those of the
French syndicate. The other nations
have one share. Four bank supervisors
will be appointed by the Bank of Eng
land, the B?nk of France, the Imperial
Bank of Germany and the Bank of
Spain.
Mr. White, the American delegate, is
of the opinion that the result is a sat
isfactory one, not only because the im
mediate future of Morocco is secured,
but because the manner of the settlement
is satisfactory both to France and Ger
many and removes the causes for fric
tion and restores international relations
to normal. The principles for which
Germany insisted, the integrity of Moroc
co and equal commercial and economic
rights there, Mr. White thought, were
recognized, while the special position
claimed by France also was acknowl
edged. Others of the leading delegates con
firm Mr. W hite's opinion and emphasize
the good effect the result should have
on the European situation. They say
that the agreement was in no small meas
ure due to the efficacy of the meditation
on the part of the United Statets through
its chief representatives.
Writh reference to the effect of the
conference on Morocco the delegates
were reserved in their opinion. They
admitted, however, that the operation of
real reforms will be impossible without
the good will and sanction of the Sultan
and his advisers, and for that reason the
last act of the conference will he to
authorize that the reform program as
adopted be submitted to the Sultan by
Chevalier Malmusi. the Italian minister
to Morocco, who is (Jean of the diplo
matic corps at Tangier, with the intima
tion that it is the unanimous wish of the
powers that it be put into operation im
mediately. Dowie I Ousted.
Chicago (Special). At a meeting of
5.000 adherents of the Christian Catholic
Church at Zion City, of which John
Alexander Ilowie is the founder and first
apostle, Dowie's authority, was repudiated
and William Glenn Voliva, who for
sometime has been conducting the affairs
of the church, elected in his stead. Mrs.
Dowie also repudiated her husband and
their son, Clarence Dowie, cast his lot
with his mother and the new leader,
Voliva.
Killed Br Hill-Brother.
Baxlev, Gx, (Special). Reports have
just reached here of the killing rt J. G.
Sapp. by his half-brother, John Miles, a
well-known turpentine operator, about
four miles from this place Sapp and
Miles had some trouble aUmt renting a
house. They met and became involved
in a dispute over the matter. It is said
Sanp drew his knife and started toward
Miles, whercimr.n Miles struck him with
a fence rail, inflicting fatal injuries, Roth
have wives and large families.
Desperate Holdup 0o.
Scranton, Pa (Special). One of the
boldest holdup? and robberies in this
county took place when seven men blew
up the safe and wrecked the building at
the Dickson City postoffice, securing $200
worth of stamps and a small amount of
money. Just as they were about to enter
the building three nun crime along and
were held up by the robbers and com
pelled to witness the robbery. A man
roming upstairs, looking out of the win
dow was told to keep quiet or they would
blow his head off.
Killed For Five Cents.
Lancaster, Pa. (Special). After a
quarrel over five cents in a game of
crape, Stephen Green, colored, aged 22
years, was shot down by a young negro
named John Walters, Jr. Both drew
revolvers, but peace was apparently re
stored and the party started homeward
from the barn where they had been play
ing, Green in advance. Waters suddenly
drew his revolver and shot. Green in the
body. He died shortly afterwards. The
murderer then took his victims's revolver
from his pocket and coolly walked
through the crowd that had assembled.
LATESTNEWS INSHORTORDER
DOMESTIC
A petition declaring that "intolerable
wrongs are being perpetrated in the Con
go region," and signed by Governor
Guild and members of the Massachucsetts
legislature, was forwarded to President
Roosevelt, with the request that some
form of protest be taken.
President Roosevelt will order a troop
of cavalry, two companies of infantry,
marines and the Marine Band to take
part in the celebration of the Mecklcn
bcrg (N. C.) Declaration of Indepen
dence. Captain Joseph A. Turney, of the
Twenty-second New York Regiment, and
39 years with the National Bank of
North America of New York, has con
fessed to stealing $4,000 of the bank's
funds.
Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by her
children, arrived at Fernandina, Fla., and
sailed on the Mayflower for a cruise in
W est Indian waters.
District Attorney Jerome declares de
clares the contributions of insurance
fund to political praties is illegal and im
moral, and includes criminal intent.
Georgia Welles, leading woman with
the "Clansman" company, died at a New
York hospital following an operation for
appendicitis.
Earl Grey, governor general of Cana
da; Lady Grey and Uidy Evelyn Grey
are visiting New York.
Within an hour after be had at
tempted to criminally assault Miss Blair,
a young white woman, "Cotton," a col
ored man, was lynched in West Carroll,
Florida.
District Attorney Jerome asked Jus
tice Dowling, of the New York Supreme
Court to call a special grand jury to in
vestigate the life insurance scandals.
Mrs. Blanche Turner Davis, died in
New York from blood-poisoning, due, ac
cording to her antemortcm statement, to
drugs self-administered.
After voting down a motion made by
President Mitchell to adopt the 1903
scale the miners' convention at India
napolis adjourned sine die.
James W. Alexander, former presi
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, was taken to a private sanitar
ium at Deerfield, Mass.
Two crowded cars collided on the
Williamsburg Bridge, over East River,'
and a lady was seriously injured.
The Bank of Victor, Col., in the Crip
ple Creek Dictrict, was robbed of $10,
000. George W. Perkins, former vice presi
dent of the New York Life Insurance
Company and member of the firm of J.
P. Morgan & Co., was arrested, charged
with grand larceny in the first degree,
in connection with the contribution of
$48,702.50, to political campaign funds.
Patrolman Daniel Strauss, of New
York, who fought in three wars and was
decorated by Marshal MacMahon for
bravery att Slagenta and Solferion, com
mitted suicide.
The bodies of six Greeks or Syrians,
stabbed and hacked to death, were found
in a laborers' lodging house in Minne
apolis. According to plans arranged, George
H. Perkins will be arraigned before
Justice Moss in New York on the charge
of larceny, growing out of the contri
bution of the New York Life Insurance
Company to political campaign funds.
The case of the Great Northern Rail
way Company and R. D. Wood & Co.,
accused of giving or accepting rebates,
is the first to come on trial under the
Elkins Law.
Governor Cummings, of Iowa, has
written an open letter to Senator Elkins,
of West Virginia, severely attacking him
for his method of cross-examining him
and declaring him to be a "railroad"
senator.
Lightning struck the Latter-Day
Saints' Church in Carson, la., and killed
Rev. J B Lentz, the preacher, in the
pulpit. Several members of the congre
gation were stunned.
It was announced in Pittsburg, that
Miss Margaret Louise Magee, of that
city, was to marry Baron Reidl de Ride
nau. an attache of the Austrian Legation
at Rome.
The government is withholding more
than fl,ooo, which is due Anne E. Smith,
of Hurley, Ulster County, N. Y., until
a committee of her person and estate
is appointed.
The residence of Julian Hawthorne,
the novelist, at Yonkcrs, N. Y., was part
ly burned and the family library and a
number of rare manuscripts ruined.
Mrs. Cecile Ringc, wanted in Rochester
for alleged forgery, was found acting as
nurse in the almshouse, on Blackwells
Island.
Gen. Nicanor Bolet-Peraza, formerly
minister of Venezuela at Washington,
died at his home, in New York of
pneumonia.
l-OhlilO.N
Driven to cannibalism by starvation,
members of the Yukalnr tribe, on the
Chukchis Peninsula, at the extremity of
Asia, have txren eating the bodies of their
own children or others of their families
who died of starvation. Others killed
the members of their families and com
mitted suicide.
Mrs. Violet Tcwesbury, who was ar
rested in London in November, 1115, to
gether with her husband, Lewis G.
Tewesbury, charged with passing worth
less checks, and thereupon jumped her
bail and rled for France, was extradited
from l'ans.
The British government lias surren
dered to the Labor party on the Trades
Dispute Bill, which provides complete
immunity for trades-unions funds.
Prince Paul Dolgonoukol'f, of Moscow,
is to lit tried on the charge of inciting
the peasantry to riot and ot fostering a
revolutionary muvement.
Premier Witte has submitted his resig
nation to the Czar, his plea being ill
health. His successor will likely be
Privy Councilor Kohovsoff.
The Russian authorities continue ex
tensive preparations to meet an uprising.
The St. Petersburg p ilice force has been
increased 100 officers and 1,300 men.
The leaders of the regicides in Servia
will shortly be placed on the retired list
to enable the government to resume dip
lomatic relations with Great Britain.
Retiring Ambassador Storer declines
to discuss reports that Mr. Storer'
rumored action in church matters had
anything to do with his recall.
A preponderance of peasants was
elected to the provincial congress from
Kostroma, European Russia.
The Tariff Disputes Bill of the Brit
ish government was introduced in the
House of Commons by the Attorney Gen
eral, and was unsatisfactory to the Labor
and the Irish members.
The directors of the Technical School
in Uriansk, Russia, have dismissed the
pupils of the four highest classes on ac
count of revolutionary agitation.
The American woman who committed
suicide in the Pinilico District, England,
was identified as the wife of John B.
Curshing, a Boston Millionaire.
There was a continution of the student
demonstrations in Bucharest, Roumania.
ESCAPE FROM
A BLACK TOMB
Terrible Experience of a Number of
French Miner.
OTHERS ARE ALIVE IN THE PIT.
lodlfastlot Amoof the Famlles tf lb Lost
Miners it tbo Pillar to Seercb tb Cot
Merles More Thoroughly For Dies tbo
Sirvlrort Never Closed Their ties sal
Lived Upoo Horsemeit tad Hey.
Lens, France (By Cable). Thirteen
of the 1,300 miners who were entombed
in the coal mines at Courrieres 20 days
ago were taken from the mine alive
and well Friday. They had lived on hay
found in one of the underground sta
bles and the morsels of food which they
took into the mine with them nearly
three weeks ago.. All attempts to rescue
the entombed men had been abandoned
more than two weeks ago. Five or six
others arc believed to, be alive in the
mine.
A gang or salvagers had just completed
their night's work when they were
startled to see a group of miners, terri
bly haggard and exhausted snd with
eves sunken, appear form a remote part
of Pit No. 2. The strongest of the party
said they had broken out of a distant
gallery, where they had been entombed
since the disaster.
The rescued men were taken up the
elevator, but were unable to see, owing
to the dazzling daylight. They all asked
for news of relatives and friends and
wished to home immediately.
The doctors, however, prevented them
with difficulty from so doing. Later
crowds besieged the mines in the hope
of hearing of further escapes, necessitat
ing the employment of a strong police
force and detachments of troups to main
tain order.
It is said that others of the entombed
miners are alive and about to be brought
out, their signals having been heard.
One of the men rescued, a man named
Nemy, said that for the first eight days
the party ate the bark off the timbering
of the mine. Later they found the de
composed body of a horse, which they
cut up and ate with hay. The survivors
brought up portions of the decomposed
horse meat.
Kearny, who was the most lucid of the
miners who escaped, graphically describ
ed their imprisonment as follows :
"After the explosion I grouped my
way about, stumbling over bodies and
seeking refuge from the gases. I found
some comrades sheltered in a remote
niche. We ate earth and bark for eight
days, and then these provisions gave out.
"We continued to gro-upe among the
bodies seeking for an outlet from our
prison, but were forced back time and
time again. We found some hay, which
we ate, and two days after we found a
dead horse, which we cut up and ate with
the hay and bark. We suffered most
from want of water. Finally, we became
desperate and separated into three par
ties and communicated with each other
by shouts.
"Last night we felt a draft of fresh
air, which finally guided us to an open
ing." The families of the miners arc intense
ly indignant. They claim that salvage
operations were never undertaken in the
part of the mine from which Nemy and
his companions escaped, and disorders
arc expected. The most severe repres
sive measures have been taken. Crowds
of women denounce the directors and en
gineers, crying: "If you had given us
tools we would have saved our own hus
bands." Sbot flit Wife and Dsugbter.
Greensburg, Pa., (Special). While in
delirium, the result, it is said, of ex
cessive drinking, J. A. C. Ruffncr, an at
torney, fatally shot his wife and ser
iously wounded his daughter. Ruffner
then fled to the woods, but was captured
later and is now in jail. On account of
his nervous condition arrangements had
been made to take him to a sanitarium.
Excusing himself to the officials, Ruffner
went into his wife's room and drawing
a revolver fired three shots into her body.
The daughter was wounded in endeavor
ing to protect her mother.
Colonel Conner's Sudden Death.
Chicago, (Special). Col. Freeman
Connor, of Valparaiso, Ind., a retired
army officer, was found dead in Forty
third Street. Apparently he died from
heart disease. Colonel Connor and his
wife attended a wedding. When the
guests were preparing to leave Colonel
Connor mentioned that he was not feel
ing well, and that he would order a car
riage. Thinking the fresh air might ben
efit him, he decided to walk to the livery
stable, and was not seen again alive.
Colonel Connor was 70 years old.
Gormia No Belter.
Washington, D. C. (Special) Friends
of Senator Gorman, of Maryland, are
concerned over his present illness, al
though the statement is made that the
Senator is not dangerously ill. Mr. Gor
man has not been in the Senate for six
weeks, and for the better part of that
time he has been confined to his bed.
Last week his condition gave rise to
some alarm. The chief cause of concern
on the part of Senator Gorman's family
and friends is that his condition shows
no improvement.
FACTS WORTH REMEMBERINQ
Paris dancing niasters are lamenting
the decline of French elegance in the art,
They assert that the French sire losing
their old habits of politeness, and as a
dancing nation are declining. .
An English company has been formed
to furnish a new soap which makes laun
dry work with salt water possible. Now
ocean steamships will not have to carry
from 50,000 to 100,000 pieces of bed and
table linen to last during the entire voy
age. Washing can be done aboard.
At Lancaster, England, the other day,
at the funeral of W. Wingate Saul, a
former army surgeon, the hearse was
draped in green, the drivers wore green
and chestnut horses were used.
The Y. M. C. A. in the United States
has 106 branches for colored memliers,
74 of which are in educational institu
tions and 32 in cities. Their aggregate
membership exceeds 8.000.
The highest elevator in the world was
recently installed at the Buergenstock,
on the lake of the four cantons in
Switzerland. It has a height of nearly
800 feet arid takes passengers up to the
summit of that mountain.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS
Changes li Immigration Bll'.
Senator Dillingham submitted the re
port of the Committee on Immigration
on his bill amending the immigration
laws. The changes made in the present
law are numerous. The head tax on in
coming aliens is increased from $2 to $5,
and steamships arc subject to fines ot
$100 for bringing to the United States
any person prevented from entering by
reason of afflictions of mind or body.
The present law provides for such fines
only in case of aliens afflicted with loath
some or contagious diseases.
The bill adds to the classes of aliens
now excluded by law all imbeciles, feeble-minded
persons, persons who are
mentally or physically defective, such de
fect being of a nature which may affect
the immigrant's ability to earn a living;
children under 17 years, unless accom
panied by parents and strengthens the
provisions excluding polygamists, crimi
nals and prostitutes.
The head tax is imposed on aliens in
transit, except in certain cases, and is
abolished in the case of foreign officials
coming to the United States overland.
The bill further provides that steamship
companies be required to furnish lists of
all outgoing aliens before departure from
the United Sttates.
To aid in promoting the distribution
of admitted aliens among the states and
territories desiring settlers the bill estab
lishes a division of information in the
Bureau of Immgiration. Information
concerning states and territories will be
collected and distributed among admitted
aliens, and states and territories may
maintain representatives at the various
immigrant stations for the purpose of in
ducing aliens to settle there.
Crnlse of the Roosevelts.
Mrs. Roosevelt assompanied by her
children Ethel, Archie and Quentin
the children's governess and Mrs. Roose
velt's maid, left Washington for Fer
nandina, Fla., on the Florida Limited
over the Southern Railway. At Fernan
dina they will board the Mayflower for
a cruise of about 10 days in West India
waters. Mrs. Roosevelt is taking the
trip for the purpose of securing a rest,
and does not expect to be entertained by
the people either in Cuba or Porto Rico.
The Betsy Roes House.
Chairman Bartholdt, of the House
Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds, was told by John Quincy
Adams, of Philadelphia, that the latter
desired to give the government the Betsy
Ross home in Philadelphia, and that a
bill would be introduced to that end.
Coollrmed By tbe Senate.
The Senate in executive session con
firmed the following nominations:
George Eugene Eager, Illinois, consul
at Barmen, Germany; James W. John
son, New York, consul at Puerto Cabel
lo, Venezuela; James E. B. Stuart, col
lector of customs, district of Newport
News, Va.; Walter B. Hill, New Hamp
shire, Indian inspector (irrigation en
gineer). Government officials favor an interna
tional control of wireless telegraphy,
citing recent confusion and lack of news
of the drydock Dewey as illustrating the
necessity for a centralized supervision.
Secertary Root asks for an appropria
tion of $50,000 for American representa
tives at the second peace conference
called by the Czar of Russia.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has asked the Baltimore and Ohio for
information regarding coal mines along
the line of the corporation.
The House Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds agreed to re
port a public building bill carrying ap
propriations of $20,000,000.
Former Governor General Luke E.
Wright, of the Philippines, took the oath
as ambassador to the Court of Japan.
Associate Justice Harlan, of the Sup
reme Court, refuses to discuss a state
ment that he will resign.
The House passed the Legislative,
Executive and Judical Appropriation Bill
carrying $30,000,000.
The bill to permit Chinese students,
merchants and travelers to enter this
country was the subject of a hearing by
the House Committee on Foreign Af
fairs.. Arguments were made before the In
terstate Commerce Commission on the
charges brought by Mr. Hearst against
the coal-carrying roads.
The President submitted to the House
the report of Assistant Secretary of State
Peirce making serious charges against
ex-Consul Generals Goodnow and Mc
Wade and Consul Williams.
During the consideration of the Five
Civilized Tribes' Bill in the House the
railroads were accused of trying to get
control of the coal lands in the Indian
Territory.
Consideration of a bill to give protec
tion to the originators of horticultural
products under the trade-mark laws was
given by the House Committee on Pat
ents. President Roosevelt has given to the
War Department Museum a piece of log
from General Grant's cabin near St.
Louis.
The President has decided to reappoint
Henry B. F. MacFarland one of the
commissioners of the District of Colum
bia. The House agreed to the conference
asked for on the bill to define and pun
ish hazing at. Annapolis. '
Secretary Taft was before the Senate
committee explaining the items of the
Army Appropriation Bill.
Secretary Charles J. Bonaparte has de
cided to accept the resignation of Mid
shipman Mcriweather.
The refusal of the House Ways and
Means Committee to take up tariff re
vision was the subject of a cplloquy
in the House between Messrs. Williams
and Payne.
A committee of bankers was before the
House Committee on Commerce to urge
legislation to make bills of lading more
secure as negotiable instruments.
M. Mollard, of Paris, not satisfied with
the usual grafting adopted by floricultur
ists, has started to transform vegetables.
It is said he has succeeded in turning a
radish into a potato.
In the Wisconsin zinc fields there are
13 magnetic separation plants in opera
tion and it is said that this use of electro
magnetism is greatly increasing tht yield
of zinc in that district.
One of the great factors in opening
up Korea to trade is the building of a
system of railroads through the her
mit nation by the Japanese.
ANOTHER TACK
JEROME TAKES
De Now Asks For a Srecial Grand
Jury.
HE EXPLAINS TO THE COURT.
Will Have Aid of Mr. Hughes' Assistant la
Ferretlof Out Criminal Cbarf.es From tbo
Evidence Submitted to the Armstrong Com
mltleo Boih Houses of tbo Legislature
' Hart Now Passed tlx BIIL
New York, (Special). District At
torney Jerome made a new move in the
insurance situation. He applied in per
son to Justice Dowling in the criminal
branch of the Supreme Court, for a
special panel of grand jurors to be
sworn in in May.
This new jury, Mr. Jerome announc
ed, would investigate tire disclosures
made by the Armstrong Committee.
"What judge will be sitting in Part
t of General Sessions during May?"
asked Justice Dowling. The judge in
Part I receives the reports of the grand
jury and charges that body. "Judge
Foster," replied Jerome. Justice Dow
ling thought a -moment and then said he
would take the matter under advise
ment and give a decision lal6r. Mr.
Jerome said that he made the applica
tion after having consulted with Jus
tice O'Gorman, who will be settling in
April, and Justice Scott who will have
tle criminal branch during the May
term.
Justice Dowling asked if the jury was
to take up nothing but insurance matters.
Mr. Jerome assured him that this
would be the only duty, but added it
was not ncccessary to mention that in
the order.
Mr. Jerome's action was partly due,
it is understood, to the fact that Matthew
C. Fleming, who assisted Charles E.
Hughes in the Armstrong Committee's
investigation, lias returned from a va
cation and is about ready to go on as
the District Attorney's aid.
Albany, N. Y., (Special). The As
sembly passed unanimously the bill of
the Armstrong insurance investigating
comittce, which postpones until Novem
ber ij the annual elections of directors
and trustees of the New York Life, Mutual
and New York Mutual Reserve of New
York and Security Mutual of Binghamtou,
and terminates on that date the tenure of
office of all present directors and trustees
and prescribes that at the election of
their successors no proxy shall be valid
if executed prior to September 15.
The bill, which passed the Senate by a
unanimous vote, in the Assembly was sub
stituted for the identical Assembly meas
ure on the order of third reading. By
this means it gained a place on the As
sembly calendar. The bill now goes to
the Governor in time for him to make
a law in time to postpone the election of
the New York Life, which otherwise
would be held April 9. No doubt of his
prompt approval is entertained.
HIS HEART HAD SLIPPED.
Unusual Experience ot Hungarian Who Died
of Pleurisy.
Buffalo, N. Y., (Special). Andrew
Joe, a Hungarian, 49 years old, died at
his home, in North Tonawanda, after
having lived for several weeks with his
heart shifted to the right side. Death
was not due to the unusual location of
the organ, for the heart performed its
functions in a normal manner, but to
pleurisy. This disease caused an accu
mulation of pus, and it is believed that
the collecting of this pus forced the
heart from the left to the right side
of the chest. An operation was per
formed at the Buffalo General Hospital
two weeks ago ' to remove the pus, but
is was unsuccessful. Had he lived, the
physicians say, his heart would have
given him no trouble : neither would it
have shifted back to its normal position.
Killed Both Women.
Ru;igc, Texas (Special). Near Cou
.chce, eight miles south of here, a Mex
ican named Ramon overtook a vehicle
containing two young women and a little
boy. Ramon climbed into the rear of
the buggy and cut the throat of one of
the women, causing instant death. The
horse became frightened and began to
run, whereupon Ramon drew a revolver
and shot the oilier woman dead. Jeal
ousy prompted the deed. The two dead
women were daughters of Alex. M.
Henry, a well-to-do ranchman of this
county. Officers are sarching for Ra
mon. Fatality at the Capitol.
Washington, D. C, (Special). Mrs.
Mary C. Wallace, of Denver, was fatally
injured in the public elevator in the Sen
ate wing of the Capitol by attempting
to leave the car while it was in motion,
and she died shortly before 6 o'clock P.
M. She was caught between the Senate
floor and the top of the car and crushed
about the breast. An ambulance conveyed
her to the Casualty Hospital, but in the
meantime she was treated by Senator
Gallinger.
Tbo Castellans Divorce.
Paris, (By Cable). The adjourned
hearing of the Castellane divorce pro
ceedings set for March 31 has been post
poned until April 28, owing to the ab
sence of the Countess Anna at Biarritz,
and to the. fact that Count Boni is en
gaged in an electoral campaign. The de
lay is really due to the desire of the
parties to determine on the future bus
iness and domestic phases of the case be
fore the court proceeds with the final
hearing.
Suicide of a Gunner's Mate.
Kew York (Special). John Thomp
son, a gunner's, mate who had served 25
years in the United States Navy, was
found dead from a self-inflicted bullet
wound in the head in the rifle range at
the navy yard, Brooklyn. An examina
tion of the body by a surgeon from the
Naval Hospital showed that Thompson
had probably been dead for about 24
hours. The range had been closed over
Sunday, and Thompson had probably
gone there on Sunday morning to kill
himself.
For s Fruit Eicbsoge.
Martinsburg, W, Va. (Special). Fruit
growers of Morgan, Jefferson and Berk
eley Counties have decided to organize a
fruit exchange for the Eastern Pan
handle of the state, with headquarters
in Martinsburg. The object will be to
have an office through which negotiations
for the sale of the output of the or
chards of the three counties mav be con
ducted, and also to buy the fruit from
those who are forced to sell early and
hold it until the highest prices are reach
ed. The output of the orchards of these
counties last year reached about $425,-000.
QUEEN OF BATTLESHIPS,
The New Jersey Melotelos Her Fins Speed
Reccrd.
Boston, (Special). The performance
of the battleship New Jersey in main
taining a speed of 19.18 knots an hour
in a four-hour endurance test off the
New England coast, coupled 'with her
remarkable speed over a measured mile
at Rockland, Me., at a 19.48-knot-an.
hour gait, places this product of the
Fore River Shipbuilding Company at
the head of all 'American-built battle
ships, so' far as speed is concerned.
It was ascertained on her standardi
zation trial eff Rockland that an aver
age revolution of her propcllets of
'25 53 per minute was sufficient to drive
the 15.000-ton battleship through the
water at her contract speed of 19 knots
an hour. Thursday her average revolu
tions per minute reached 126.297, and
from these figures she made an average
of 19.18 knots an hour, compared with
19.01 made by the Rhode Island, and
19 by the Virginia, sister ships, at their
trials, a few months apo.
At one time the New Jersey's speed
reached 19.278 knots an hour for a
pciiod of 15 minutes, while her lowest
for a similar period was 18.960.
The weather conditions were favor
iiVIe, although in those endurance trials
the condition of the wind and sea dc
not figure, the only question being a?
to whether the vessel is .'hie to maintain
the required number of revolutions a
minute.
Shortly after the conclusion of the run
the minor tests of turning, stopping
and full speed astern were held and pro
nounced by the trial board to be successful.
MILLION DESTITUTE JAPANESE.
Complete Crop Failures Throughout Several
Provinces.
Tokio, (By Cable). The latest sta
tistics procurable from the three prefec
tures most heavily affected by the famine
are as follows :
Fukushima A complete failure of the
crops over two-thirds of the whole cul
tivated area. The sufferers number 483,
588, out of a total population of 1,170,958.
Miyago A complete crop failure af
fects nearly the whole cultivated area.
The sufferers number 284,8(15, out of a
population of 889,782.
Iwatc A total failure of the crops over
nearly two-thirds of the whole cultivated
area. The sufferers number 190,492, out
of a population of 749,927.
The sufferers here mentioned are only
those requiring immediate relief in the
matter of food and clothing. The other
prefectures arc also more or less affected,
especially Gumma. The total number o;
sufferers calling for aid exceeds 1,000,000.
Assistance, both private and official, is
active, but entirely inadequate to the ne
cessities of the occasion.
Thirty-Two Horses Cremated.
Bradford, Pa., (Special). The explo
sion of a gasoline engine caused a fire
whichdestroycd a large part of the town
of Kane, near here, entailing a loss of
$84,000, with very little insurance. The
blaze started in the livery stable of Wick
ham & Johnson, and cremated 32 horses
in their stalls. A dozen buildings were
destroyed before the fire was controlled.
Among the structures burned were the
City Hall and the Baptist Church. Twen
ty roomers in Mrs. Jacobson's boarding
house lost all their belongings.
Condemned Men to Be Shot.
El Paso, Tex., (Special). The Su
preme Court of Mexico has affirmed the
sentence of death against Richardson,
Mason and Harle, convicted of having
murdered Mitchell and Devcrs at Chi
huahua four years ago, in order to col
lect insurance on their lives. They will
be shot unless Governor Creel pardons
them.
FINANCIAL.
The Atchison has bought this week
60,000 tons of steel rails.
There have been exported this crop
year over 101,000,000 bushels of wheat.
Morgan brokers express bullish semi
ments on the immediate course of stocks.
Bean is a steady buyer of Lehigh Val
ley and it is believed that New York is
getting the stock.
No bids were received for $2,000,000 of
4 per cent, bonds offered by the cily of
Chicago, this is another indication of
the dullness in the bond market.
Vice President Tugh, of the Pennsyl
vania, was elected president of the Mary,
land, Delaware & Virginia Railroad.
Will Keep Mines Open.
Scraniou, Fa., (Special). An oflkiaT
of one of the coal companies made the
statement that, strike or no strike, the
companies intended to operate their
mines. They did not do that three years
ago, but closed up and waited for the
miners to return. The Erie Company
has approached its machinists to ask
them to act as coal and iron police.
Siandsrd Oil Absodons Flgbl.
Richmond, Va., (Special). The Ions-drawn-out
fight between the Standard
Oil and the American Can Companies
and the State Corporation Commission
against the payment of the tax of $503,
respectively, imposed by the commission
for the privilege of doing business in Vir
ginia, came to a summary end, when both
concerns abandoned the fight and sub
mitted checks for the amounts.
Crossed the Baltic la a Balloon.
Copenhagen (By Cable). Two Ger
man soldiers landed from a balloon on
Sunday at Karlskrona. They left Berlin
on Saturday and crossed the Baltic in
a fierce snows.torm. As they were near
ins the Swcdis.li Coast the storm caused
a rent in the balloon, permitting the gas
lo escape. The balloon began to descend
and the men were obliged to 'cut away
;he basket, throw out its contents and
cling to the net. It was two hours be
fore they landed exhausted.
THINOSRTREMEMtttRINa
Vast tracts of virgin forests are found
in the southern part of Chili, the woods
being of excellent quality, and consist
ing chiefly of cypress, roble,, laurel, lin
gue and rauli,
A competition for spring wheel devices,
pneumatic hubs and Block absorbers may
be held in Paris in the spring; a prelim
inary meeting of interested manufacturers
has already been held.
One of the fashionable restaurants of
London has introduced French serio
comic singing for the entertainment of
its patrons during the supper hour.
THE KEYSTONE STATE
lb Lslsst Pennsylvania News Told la Short
Order.
By the explosion Thursday of the tn.
gine boiler at the wood mill owned by
Luther Green, between Raymond and
Andrews settlement,. Potter Couniy, the
mill was wrecked and Leon Spencer and
Frank Gale, employees, seriously in
jured. Fire in the Konklc Block, Williams,
port, damaged the stock of Matlett &
Co., clothiers, "to the amount of $ 10,00a
Insurance, $7000.
James Delaney, foreman of a repair
gang, and five Italian laborers were bad
ly injured by the explosion of a boiler
it Ewen colliery, Eric Coal Company,
near Pittston.
John Search, J9 years old, or Harris.
Surg, accidently shot and instantly killed
Miss Barbara Rinchart, 42 years old,
af Reedsville. He was explaining the
mechanism of a revolver.
At a meeting of residents of Coal
Township, adjoining Shamokin, residents
decided to establish a banking institu
tion. The township has a population of
18,000, but no bank.
The fire at the Phoenix Park Colliery,
a large operation west of Pottsvillc, has
been reported by the Philadelphia &
Reading Coal & Iron Company officials
,as extinguished. By scaling up all the
openings the fire was smothered.
Abraham Cohn, after conducting a
shoe and clothing store at Palmyra, Leb
anon County, for three days, arrived at
his business place to find that robbers
during the night had carried away $600
worth of his stock, leaving- less than
enough to suffice for the day's business.
Rev. David P.uckwalter, a retired
farmer and for thirty years a widely
known minister of the Mennonite Church,
died at his home in Upper Leacock
Township, aged 85 years. Two weeks
ago he went out to It's stable to care for
the horses and the family found him ly-.
ing in a stall, unconscious, and with a
gash in his head. He is supposed to
have fallen and scared a horse, which
kicked him. It was found the mafl had
concussion of the brain. He gradually
weakened until his death ensued.
Suspicious circumstances surround the
death of James Muirhcad, 19 years old,
of Audenrcid. near Mahanoy City.. He
attended a sleighing party to Frecland
on the night of March 11, and was one
of the merriest of the group. Before
leaving Frecland on the homeward trip
Muirhead complained of not feeling well,
intimating that bis condition . was the
result of some spirituous refreshment
he had taken, although he was not ad
dicted to the drinking habit. When he
got into the sleigh he lay down and was
soon in a profound stupor. His compan
ions thought he was asleep. When they
tried to arouse him as the sleigh drew
up in front of his home they discovered
that he was dead. An investigation was
begun to ascertain the cause of his death.
An autopsy will be held on the body to
determine the cause of his death.
George E. Sprenkle, 36 years old, a
prominent business man. of York Coun
ty died at his home in Nashville. Death
was caused by tuberculosis from which
he had been suffering for some years.
Deceased had large business interests
in York, being connected with several
corporations. He was, until a short
time ago, a director of the York County
National Bank.
A horse and carriage belonging to
Richard Ackerman, of Glcndon, which
was left standing on the principal street
of Easton, was taken by Jay and Oscar
Snyder, aged 14 and 12 years. They
drove the animal about the streets until
midnight, when they abandoned the rig.
The boys have been in trouble before and
their father turned them over to the
police.
Another Mentgomery County hotel
keeper is in trouble. The Court hand
ed down a rule returnable this week on
Daniel M. Klein, to show cause why the
license granted to him for a hotel at
Limerick Square should not be revoked
because he sold liquor to minors and to
persons visibly intoxicated.
The will of Tilghman H. Boyer, a
wealthy manufacturer and dealer in
leather, was admitted to probate at Al
lentown and disposed of the entire es
tate valued at about $200,000 to a son,
Allen Boyer. of this city, and a daugh
ter, Mrs. Robert Weaver, of New Y'ork,
disinheriting his .wife, one son and two
of the daughters.
One man wss killed and two others
seriously injured at the Short Mountain
colliery, at Lykens, when a large slip ol
slate, thirteen feet square, fell from the
top of a slope and pinned Joseph Lorick,
Frank Kraemer and a Pole, whose name
is unknown, under it. i.orick was killed
instantly. Kraemer had both legs and
one arm broken and suffered internal
injuries. The Pole was injured inter
nally. A fire that threatens the Morea Mine
of C. M. Dodson & Co. had its origin in
a manner probably never before dupli
cated in the annals of the anthracite coal
region. Several days ago a cave-in oc
cured on the culm bank at the colliery
and the small locomotive which draws
the culm and slate cars up the bank
tumbled into the hole, carrying with it
four men, who had a narrow escape
from a terrible death. Later it was dis
covered that the fire in the locomotive
had icnited the coal and the volume of
smoke that is- ascending indicated that
the flames may spread to the entire
workings of the mine.
While Anton Jecjak, an Australian
boy, aged 16, who was employed at the
Pensylvania Steel Company's smelting
furnace at Steelton, was placing mud in
holes on the ttop of the furnace, the
bricks on the arch gave way and the
boy fell into the furnace. Not even his
ashes could be distinguished from the
surrounding mass, ,
Dr. John R. Locke, 84 years old, the
oldest and best known citizen of Lewis
town, died from pneumonia. He was
a graduate of the Baltimore College of
Dental Surgery in the Class of 1846.
One of his most pleasant anticipations
was that of attending the sixtieth anni
versary of his class in Baltimore in May.
He practiced dentistry in this place for
sixty years and was the oldest active
member of his profession in the State,
with the exception of Dr. Jesse C. Green.'
J. Oliver Loudenslager, overseer of
the Poor in Selinsgrove, was buried
Thursday.
Dr. J. Nickolas Mitchell, secretary of
the State Lunacy Commission, submitted
to the Board of Pardons a written re
port of his recent examination of James
Salerno, the Willjamsport murderer. He
says that, Salerno is insaae, suffering
from melancholia and that hjs physical
condition vras so low when the doctor
last saw him that he judges, unless
something unusual should occur, that he
cannot live much longer. "But inasmuch
as such unexpected recoveries do some
times take place," the doctor adds, "I
would respectfully cuggest that he may
not be pardoned, but so confined foil
the rest of his life that he may not be a
further menace to society."