THE POSTAL LAWS ARE CONFUSING Fostmaster General Recommends a Commission. EXISTING STATUES OIT OF DATE. Mr. Ctrttlyoi Sot U Tkol Conf rest Provide for t Body Represeotlof the Virlooi lattrt lit I Formulate. Strict el RcuUlloo for Secoid-clite Matter to Take th Plat ! (bo Present Jumble ol Statute. Washington, V. C, (Special). Post master General Cortclyou lias recom mended to Congress llie appointment of commission to inquire into the sub ject of iccoml-class mail mailer with a view to ascertaining what modifications of the present second-class laws art necessary, the commission to render it report to Congress not later than Decem ber to, iqoo. In order that all interests shall be represented, lie has recommended that the commission consist of seven persons and be made up as follows : One Senator ; selected by the President of the Senate ; one representative, .selected hy the speak er of the House; one officer of the Post office Department, selected hy the Post master General; one representative of the publishers of daily newspapers, one representative of the publishers of week ly, semiweekly and triweekly newspapers and one representative of the publishers of periodicals and magazines, the last three to be appointed by the President of the United States from among; those recommended to him by representative associations of publishers of such news pipers and periodical?, and a seventh member to be selected by the six whose manner of selection is so specifically provided. The commission will have powrr to employ clerks and stenograph ers, administer oaths, send for persons and papers, and do all things necessary for the carrying out of its objects. An appropriation of $j;.ooo is asked to de fray the cost of the investigation. The Postmaster General in his recent annual report recommended to Congress a thorough review of the whole subject of second-class mail matter and the en actment of a statute to take the place of those existing which would render un necessary the consideration of such ques tions ns those upon which second-class matter now depend. In now recommending this commis sion the Postmaster General in his com munication to the Committee on Post oflices and Post Roads cf the Senate says : "The existing statutes regulating the second-class of mail matter are out of date ; they do not meet modern require ments of the publishing industry, and the administration of them unnece-s.'irily and unreasonably hampers the publi-hers of bona fide newspapers and periodicals. As an illustration of what is involved in administration, it may be stated that the question of what is a bona fide news paper or periodical is one about which there may be and often is much differ ence of opinion. The same is true of what constitutes a known office of pub lication; what constitutes a publication originated and published fur the dissem ination of information of a public charac ter; what is devoted to litentufc, the sciences, arts, or some special industry; what is a legitimate li't of subscribers. "All of these questions mu-t, however, be determined in each case before second class entry can be granted; but a publica tion having me ai! of the conditions is positively prohibited admission if it it be 'designed primarily for advertising pur poses, or fi r free circulation, or for cir culation at nominal rates.' That such questions, e-pecially the latter, are sub tle am ci tnnicx and raider administra tion exceedingly difScu't scarcely need j be stati d." i PART OP VERTEBRA REMOVED. Surgical Operation Cures Hospital Patient of ; Paralysis. ' St. Louis (.Special). Louis Hirtnuni, j a patient in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, i Belleville, 111., has undergone the un- ! usual opt ration of having a part of his ! spinal column removed, and the physi cians are hopeful cf his recovery. Hartnian, who is S years old, was caught by a fail of slate and coal two weeks ago, lie was taken to the hospi tal, where it was learned that his legs ! and the lower jurt of his body were para- i Jyzed. Lrs. angenn, Becluold and Hilgan'e made an incision three inches long in the back and found the vertcbrie was shattered. A part of the bone was pressing on the spinal cord. The stir- ' geons removed a piece of bone an inch King. It was a par; of the wall surround- j ing the spinal cord and was pressing :n- 1 ward. Itj removal .stopped the pressure ! on the spinal cord, and when i laniuan "ecovcred from the influence of the an- ' aesthetic he had partly recoered teei ng in his legs and the lower part of his bod v. Too Tall; Boy a Suicide, New York (Special.). I)c-pondcnt over the fact tnat he was so remarkably tall and thin as to draw all eyes in his direction when he walked along the streets, Harold Beck, 10 years old, of 316 Fifty-sixth Street, Brooklyn, shot hiinseif in the head tit 10.30 o'clock 1'. M. ami died two hours later. The boy was 6 feet 2 inches in Ins stockings and was still growing rapidly. In tile last two or three years he had spun up si, fast and at the same time had grown so thin that his schoolboy friends nicknamed him "Shadow'." Fewer Tutu Fllieeo Muodred. San Francisco, (Special). Captain Gwynn a'ked f r police assistance in iiivcsiigM.r.g reports relative lo dead bodies 111 the rums of the burned area. Captain Gwynn has been looking for dead bodies for several days, ami lie does lint belli ve that the total will amount t Iroo, ;:, the do ner says. Thus far the mvitary authorities have record of something over 350 dead bodies, and, in the opinion of Captain Gwynn. 500 will be as many as will ever be recovered. JH.OOU rroui Mereles. Washington, D. C. (Special). Fort de France, Martinique, has uttered to con tribute 40.000 frunrs for the rellief of the San Fraucisci) sufferers. The offer came through the American Consul at that place. It could not be accepted, accord ing to the rule laid down by the Presi dent, and proper answer will be made. Mr. Phelan, of Ran Francisco, lias al ready given notice of the intuition of the city authorities to accept any foreign contributions, regardless of the attitude cif the national Government, which is net disposed, even if it had the authority, to interpose any objections. LATESTNEM INSIIORTORDER DOMESTIC . John R. Walsh, former president of the defunct Chicago National Bank, was held to the federal grand jury in IkhkIs of $30,000 by United States Commis sioner Mark Koote. Corwin H. Spencer, one of the leading business men of St. Louis and a heavy grain trader, collapsed while watching the stockboard and died in a short time. District Attorney Jerome is to press the charges of perjury against Lawyer Alc Hummel in connection with the Dodge-Morse divorce case. Max Fellman, of New York, a believ er in Dr. Osier's age-limit theories,, shot himself because he is 50 years old anil penniless. Michael Angelo McGinnes, a former college professor, was sent to the peni tentiary m Kansas City for forgery. San Francsieo is getting short of rations and may have to appeal for further aid. F.x-Mayor Phelan, of San Francisco, will ask President Roosevelt and his Cabinet to consider the pioposition that the government endorse $joo,ooo.noo worth of bonds to rebuild the destroyed city. Friends of Banker Lewis G. Tcwks bury had raised $7,500 for his release when District Attorney Jerome had the collateral raised to $10,000, and Tewks bury was remanded for trial. The Iroquois Theater Company has been declared insolvent, and the victims of the theater tire will get nothing for their damage suits, which amount to ivr $j,ooo.oon. The Galveston fishing schooner Sallie Stein has been seized by a Mexican gun boat, and the crew of 10 thrown into prison for alleged fishing in prohibited waters. The government tug Mina was rammed by the -submarine torpedo boat Porpoise, and a hole was tovc in her bottom. The Porpoise was not injured. Governor Higgins has selected Comp troller Kelcy to succeed Francis Hen drick, state superintendent of insurance in New York. The cruiser Charleston was given a second sed trial with her new propeller and her former speed was exceeded. Secret service men captured a half million lottery tickets and a printing out fit that employed 50 men in New York. Striking ironworkers have stopped operations of $15,000,000 worth of new structures in the business section of Chicago. Harriett L. Hill, of Maryland, has been chosen third vice president of the Daughters of the Revolution. Mrs. Robert H. Finch, wife of the mayor of Toledo, ended her life by drinking carbolic acid. Governor Hoch, oi Kansas, was re nominated by acclamation. John S. Givecii, a well-known real es tate dealer of New York, killed his wife by giving her a drink containing poison and then ended his life by taking a drug from the same glass. A syndicate of New York capitalists has been formed to advance $100,000,000 for the rebuilding of San Francisco on a bond and mortgage basis. The quarterly report of the Equitable Life Insurance Company indicates an annual saving of three millions in the cost of management. May-Day strikes, affecting from 500 to 1,500 men took place in Chicago, Bos ton, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Pittsburg anil other cities. A rise in the price rf call money was followed by a liquidation and drop in the prices of stocks in New York. A strike of vessel employes and 'long shoremen has tie, up the shipping of ail the ports on the Great Lakes. Chicago police arrested the color hearer of a parade of anarchists who at- tcmp. d to inarch w ith a red flag. roiiiac.N It is reported that the marriage of the Infanta Maria '1 hcre-a, sister of King Alfonso, to Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bavaria, lias proved unhappy. Chancellor von Buelow, of Germany, celebrated the fifty-seventh anniversary of his birth, and the Emperor presented him with a porcelain vase. German and Russian health department officials met at Thorn and discussed measures to prevent the spread of chol ira in the future. Armenian revolutionists bored a tun nel 700 fitt long in working out a plot to rob the magazine in the arsenal at B. ku, Caucasia. The attorney for Fatlur Capon now says lie has proof that Gapon was not killed by revolutionists. Mrs. Nannie Langhorne Shaw, of Vir ginia, was married to Waldorf Astor in London. The lockout of dock laborers at Ham burg is causing delay in the loading of vessels. The committee . of the International Postal Convention, 111 stssion in Rome, re'ected a proposition for a universal lA-o-cent rate. The dynamite factory near Vintcrvi ki 11, Norway, belonging to the Nitro glycerine Company, was destroyed and tour men were killed. Max Imtrich, a leather worker of Dresden, Saxony, ci nfewd having com mitted eight murders in 'even days. The Irish members of parliament have revolt-. d ag.'i'nst the Education Bill. British Foreign Secretary Grey an nounced in the Hou-e of Commons that the Turkish claim on the Sinai Penin sula extended so far beyond Taloh that a joint delimitation hud been demanded by the British gov eminent. Baron Kmupcnsky, first secretary of the Russian Embassy at Berlin, has been appointed councillor of the . embassy of Russia at Washington, a new position in which the Baron will rank next to the ambassador. That Riissi.i is playing a deep game in the East is 'howii by the newspapers being forbidden to publish news concern ing the demobilization of the army and the movement of troops in Manchuria. A crisis in the Russian cabinet is on Premier Witte's retirement or the dis missal of Interior Minister Durnovo is likely at any moment. A Riis-ian terrorist attempted to as sassinate Colonel Mm, commander of the Seminovsky Guards, at St. Petersburg. All the Russian ministers have placed their resignations in the hands of the Czar. The Anglo-Chinese convention en gages Great Britain not to encroach on Tibetan territory nor to interfere with the Tibetan government. Miile. Spiridonova, the girl who mur dered Luhenoffeki, chief of gendarmerie, at Tamboff, Russia, in her statement be fore the court-martial that condemned her to be hanged, told a thrilling story of the brutality practiced by Luzenhoff ski and others of his type in the Russian provinces. , The resolution tendering the thank of Congress, to Gen. Horace Porter was re ferred by the Senate to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. SEVEN ARE KILLED TWENTY INJURED N&astroas Passenger Wreck on tlie Pennsylvania. TRAINS CRASH NEAR ALTOONA. Tn Cblciio Mill tod lbs St. Louis Express Meet Htid On While Oolog il High Speed Doth Locomotives sod Six Car sre Demolished Passeoitri Pinned Down Un der the Wreck!. Altoona, Pa. ( Special). The most dis astrous accident on the Pennsylvania Railroad since the disaster cast of Har risburg nearly a year ago, when about 20 persons were killed, occurred on the Pe tersburg Branch about 500 yeards east of Clover Creek Junction. The Chicago mail, bound cast, and the Chicago and St. Louis express, bound west, two of the fastest trains on the system, going at full speed, met luadon. Seven cars were wrecked and both en gines were badly damaged. The best information obtainable is to the effect that - persons were killed and about 20 injured. Later particulars may change these figures, but not to any ap preciable extent. The disaster was indirectly due to a freight wreck on the middle division at 8.4 o'clock, when 27 loaded cars of an eastbound freight train were wrecked at Union Furnace-, about 20 miles south of here, blocking all trains. The cause of the accident is attributed to the bursting of an airbrake hose. In order to avoid detentions of trains, passenger traffic was. sent over the Petersburg Branch. The Pennsylvania special, the 18-hour flyer west-bound, was the first train to pass around and make the trip in safe ty. No. 21, the St. Louis and Chicago express, was the next train to be sent west-bound over the branch. It collided with No. 18, the Chicago mail, going in an opposite direction on a single track near Clover Creek Junction. Both locomotives were wrecked. Six cars on No. 18 five mail cars and a coach were caught in the smashup. The dead and injured were passengers on the coach. No. 21 was sent out of Altoona revers ed that is, the conch was run next to the locomotive. This was done in order to avoid long detention that would have been occasioned by shifting the train. The train was sent east as far as Eliza beth Furnace, on the main line, when the locomotive was shifted and the trip over the cutoff started. The accident appears to have resulted from a misunderstanding of orders on the part of the train crew of the Chicago and St. Louis express. Information received at Superintendent Preston's office 'was to the effect that a number of passengers were fastened un der the twisted iron arid broken timbers of the wrecked cars, and whether they are dead or alive will not be ascertained until after the wreckage is cleared from the tracks. BODY BLOW TO STANDARD OIL. President Roosevelt Hits Hard In Letter to Congress, Washington, D. C, (Special). Presi dent Roosevelt transmitted to Congress the report cf James B. Garfield, Com missioner of Corporations, giving the results of his investigation of the sub ject of transportation and freight rates in connection with the oil industry. That the Standard Oil Company has benefitted cnonnouslly almost up to the present moment by secret rates, many of which were clearly unlawful, the Pres ident says the report clearly shows, the benefit thereby secured amounting to at least three-quarters of a million a year. "A very striking result of the investiga tion," he adds, "has been that shortly after the discovery of these secret rates by the Commissioner of Corporations, the major portion of tlum were promptly corrected by the railroads, so that most of them have now been done away with." The statement is added that the Depart ment of Justice will take up the question of instituting prosecutions in at least certain ca-es, and the hope is expressed that Congress will enact into a law the bill of Senator Knox to correct the in terpretation of the immunity provision rendered in Judge Humphrey's decision. Continuing, the President says : "But, in addition to these secret rates, the Standard Oil profits immensely by open rates, which ire so arranged as to give it an overwhelming advantage over its independent competitors." It is not pos sible, he says, to put into figures the exact amount by which the Standard Oil profits through the gross favoritism shown it by the railroads in that way. The profit comes not merely by the sav ing in the rate itself, but by the complete control of the market which it secures. The President also calls attention 10 eme feature of the report regarding the manner in which the law is evaded by treating as State commerce what in reali ty is merely a part of inter-State com merece. Other trusts, he declares, are getting the benefit of rate discriminations. The Sugar Trust rarely, if ever, pays the lawful rate for transportation. He favors, as an element of competi tion, putting alcohol used in the arts and manufactures on the free list, and of keeping the fee to oil and coal lands of the Indian tribes or on the public domain in the Government, the lands to be leased only on such terms and for such periods as will enable the Government to entirely control them. To Pre be Rillrosds. Chicago, (Special). One of the most thorough inquiries into the relation-hip between the railroads and the Standard Oil Company that has ever been conduct ed by the government will commence in this city May to, before the Interstate Commerce Commission. The names of the men summoned are kept secret. Hundreds of subpoenas have been issued, it is said, for independent oil refiners in Ohio, Kansas and Pennsylvania. Message Recorded For 210 Miles. Washington (Special). Reports re ceived at the bureau of equipment from the naval wireless station at Port Argu cllo, Cab, say that the coherer instru ment in 'operation recording upon a Morse tape has worked with messages by daylight from the Farallones, a dis tance of 220 nautical miles. Since the device was only calculated to work at a distance of 50 miles, the Navy Depart ment it very much encouraged over the experiment. ASHES IN MANY VAULTS AND SAFS. Content Intact la W Per Cent of Those Opened. San Francisco, (Special). A large proportion, if not a majority, of the busi ness men of San Francisco who were thankful during the conflagration that their valuables were mcleised in fireproof vaults, have wakened to an unpleasant surprise. Within the List 72 hours 576 safes and vaults have been opened in the district east of Powtll and north of Market streets, and in not more than 60 per cent, of these instances were the contents found intact. In many cases a pile of ashes represented thousands of dollars' worth of accounts. While it is difficult to give exact fig ures as to losses and insurance in con nection with the fire which has-devastated such a large portion of San Fran cisco, close estimates have been com piled which show that the actual prop erty loss to the city is close to $.?MV 000. It is now estimated that in order to meet the municipal expenses the tax rate will be over $2.50 on $too until the burned district is partially rebuilt. The ciity's taxable basis was cut practically in half. The tax rate for the current year was $1.07. As a part of the general system of army relief there has been established on a level lawn south of the music-stand in Golden Gate Park a complete regi mental field hospital, probably the first that has ever been erected in this city. A detail of too men under command of Captain H. H. L. Gilchrist, constitutes the administrative force, and the hos pital now has a capacity of 300 patients, although but 80 have lieen received to date. A consignment of odorless exca vator troughs, which are pronounced the highest type of sanitary convenience, have been received. The system will be installed at once. The commercial banks belonging to the Clearing-house Association have ar ranged to open for new or "sptcial" business. The arrangement is to re ceive all deposits that customers may desire to make on new accounts. The depositors may check out these new bal ances without restriction or limit. The plan for new or special business was adopted in Oakland and other parts of Alameda County, and so successful was it in its operation that the banks have now resumed regular business and are receiving more money than they are paying out. RESUMING BUSINESS IN SAN FRANCISCO. Factories Stirling Operations and Many Storei Reopen. San FrancUco (Special). Business is being rapidly resumed by retail tradesmen of every description throughout the de stroyed sections of the city. George Wittman, chairman of the committee on retail trade, reports that the following places of business are open: Forty-four butchers, 29 restaurants, 22 bakeries, 22 fruit and vegetable Mauds, 71 dairies, 15 refteshmcnt parlors, 53 groceries, and 71 miscellaneous estab lishments, including tailors, plumbers, dry goods Mores, druggists and cigar stands. In less than two weeks the garbage question will be disposed of. An in spection of the reduction works in the Potrero has been made and it was re ported that outside of the loo feet of the tall chimney repairs to the furnaces can be completed in 10 days. Men were set to work on these neces sary repairs and soon there will be es tablished a forced draught, 50 as to in sure rapid combustion. As soon as this is completed all refuse willl be incinerated as in the past. Mayor Schmitz has just made the an nouncement that all time restriction as to the lighting of dwellings will be re moved, with the suggestion that candles be used exclusively for illuminating pur poses until electricity can be resumed. Petroleum for lighting purposes is es pecially prohibited until the water supply is intact. The Spring Valley Water Company ex pects to have the city front water sup ply in commission within 10 days. By that time the pipes on the various wharves will have been overhauled and shipping can be accommodated as before the earthquake. The United Railroads was given per mission by Mayor Schmitz to operate its cars until later hours. The work of inspecting chimneys is proceeding rapidly. The inspectors are all architects or builders, and are donat ing their services for the benefit of house holdlers. Every chimney is every build ing left standing in San Francisco will be thoroughly inspected before any permits are issued to make fires indoors. The reports will be turned over to the board of fire underwriters, the members of which will make a reinspection, and then in proper cases grant the coveted per mission to move the kitchen from the street. Many of the larger factories left un harmed are starting up work with all the rapidity possible under the circumstances. At the Union Iron Works 2,300 men are now employed, and the management ex pects within a fortnight to have the full complement of its force nearly 4,000 men engaged. The steamer City of Pueblo, which was sunk in the bay, has been raised and is being repaired. Workmen are also engaged fixing th steamer Columbia, which was turned on her side. The hulls of the new Hawaiian-American Steamship Company's liners were pitched about four feet to the south, but were uninjured, and only need to be replaced in position. FINANCIAL AFFAIRS. Seaboard Air Line's net profits in Feb ruary increased $8,624, or about 25 per cent. Judge Gary, of United States Steel, refused to discuss the rumor that the 1 1 ill ore deal was off. Reading's net surplus in March was $9ot,KX.. compared with $1,019,2X0 in the ame month last year. It is estimated that since the earth quake, ?,;5,ooo,ooo of cash, all told, has viie from the Fast to San Francisco. Large gold imports now attract but little attention. Total wheat and corn exports this run year have amounted to 214,000,000 bushels, against 110,500,000 bushels dur ing the same period last year. A report that the deal for leasing the Great Northern ore lands to United States Steel had fallen through caiued an uneasy feeling. Lehigh Valley's statement for March shows decrease in net surplus. The surplus was $1,117,343, compared with $1,173,628 in March, 1905. Owing to the present strike April's earnings will fall considerably below those of last year, THOSE FOREIGN OFFERS OF AID Subject of a Special Blcs'ag? lo Congress. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT EXPLAINS. Did Nol Interfere Wlib Oilers Where. Tbcy Wert Mad to tbe Relief Committee Congreaa Should Adopt Resolution Expressing Appreciation ol Evidences nl Sympathy. Washington, 1). C, (Special). A special message was sent to Congress by President Roosevelt in which he ex plained the attitude of this government regarding the offer of contributions to the San Francisco fire and earthquake sufferers from foreign countries. The President says that where the contribu tions were made by this government he did not feel warranted in accepting them, but where they were made to the Citizens' Relief Committee of San Fran cisco no official action was or could be taken in regard to them. The message indicates that the ? o ernmeitts of the entire civilized world promptly lespondcel in messages of sym pathy and many of tliem with contribu tions or offers of contributions. The text of the message follows : To the Senate and House of Represen tatives : Immediately after the disaster at San Francisco many offers of assistance in the shape of contributions were tendered by foreign individuals, corporations, gov ernments and municipalities. The Can adian government, with an instant gen erosity peculiarly pleasant as a proof f the close and friendly ties which knit ns to our neighbors of the north, offered to pass a resolution appropriating $100, 000 for the relief of the sufferers by earthquake and fire. With a generosity equally marked and equally appreciated the Republic of Slexico, our nearest neighbor to the south, voted to appro priate $30,000, and the Repubiic of Guate mala voted lo appropriate $10,000 for the same purpose. The Kmprcss of China, in addition to sending money to be used for the Chinese who suffer ed in San Francisco, offered to send more than double as muchtobc used for the inhabitants generally. The Japanese gov ernment immediately offered to send across the ocean one of their beautifully equipped hospital ships to be used in any way for the sufferers and also offered 200.000 yen to the relief com mittee in addition to more than 100.000 yen sent by Japanese subjects. The government of far distant New Zealand voted $25,000. The government of Mar tinique voted 1,000 francs; the munici pality of Edmonton, Canada, $,000. Many municipalities, corporations and individuals in England, Germany, France, Japan, Cuba and other countries immed iately proffered aid. Where these offers of aid arc made to the private relief committees organised to deal with the distress in San Francisco I have, of course, no official action to take concern ing them. Where they were tendered to me in my official capacity I did not feel warranted in accepting them. Hut I am certain I give utterance to the feel ings of all our countrymen when I ex press my verv lively appreciation of the warm-hcarteif generosity and eagerness to help us in the time of cur affliction shown by the governments, the munici palities, the corporations and the indiv iduals mentioned above. We arc deeply grateful to them, and we arc deeply grateful for the way in which they show' cd in such practical fashion the growth cf the spirit of brotherhood among the nations. Appropriate expressions of gratitude to all these friends have been returned by the State Department or by myself, but it seems to me that the real depth of gratefull feeling awakened in our peo ple by all these evidences of genuine sympathy and friendship should be ex pressed also by formal action of the supreme legislative power of the nation. I recommend the passage by the Con gress of an appropriate resolution to that end. THEODORE ROOSSEVELT. White House, May 3, 1906. President to Explain. Washington (Special). In a few days President Roeisevelt will send to Con gress a message explaining the attitude of this Government toward contributions from foreign countries for the benefit of the sufferers by the earthquake an.l fire in San Francisco. The precise pur port of the message is not disclosed, but it is understood that it will deal with the difference between contributions from foreign countries made to this Govern ment and those from the same source made directly to the people of San Francisco. Chesp Meals For 'Frisco. Pan Francisco, (Special). Mn. Will Crocker presented an extensie restaur ant project to Mayor Schmitz, which the latter at once approved. Vast eating-houses, wdiere a nourishing meal may be had for 5 or 10 cents, will be established in the burned region for the accommodation of worgingincn. The first of these houses will be opened soon in Union Square, with accomodations for 1000 persons. Senator Clark to Retire. Butte, Mont., (Special). In a signed statement appearing in the Putte Miner, its owner, Senator W. A. Clark, of Mont, announces that he is not a candidate for re-election to the United States Sen ate. He says be will return to Montana to operate his interests at the close ol his present term, March 3, 1907. Savon of Paternalism. New York ( Special). Fiankers famil iar with Government boinl issues are practically unanimous in their opinion that the scheme of S:m Francisco sug gested by its fmiincc committee to sell $200,000,000 of bonds guaranteed by the national Government is untenable', and should not lie carried out. Only one banker was found who thought that the scheme would bo a to, id one, provided that the bonds sn guaranteed by the Government could be used as a basis of bank-note circulation Wltte't Downfall Complete. St. Petersburg (Hy' Cable). The of ficial announcement that Premier Witte's resignation had been accepted, coupled with the statement that former Minister of the Interior Goremykin would suc ceed him, was made Wednesday. In view of the publication of the hist few days, the former sti'tement did not come as a surprise; but M. Corcinykm' elevation to tjje premiership created amazement. He is not only regarded as a reactionary, but the general opinion is that lie is not equal 10 the task of facing the coming crisis. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. The President ' sent to the chairman of the House and the Senate a bill, with his endorsement, providing for the re turn to the Naval Academy, with loss of standing, of three cadets dismissed for hazing. Former Consul General McWadc, at Canton, China, defended himself before the House committee against charges brought by Third Assistant Secretary Pierce. Sir Mortimcr-burand, the Hritish am bissador, called at the State Department and sairl good-by to Secretary Root, preparatory to leaving for England. Composers and publishers of music protest against a bill recently introduced in Congress which, they complain, would be a deprivatiem to them, Viscount Aoki, recently appointed first ambassador of Japan to the United States, was presented to the President. President Gompers, of the Federation of Labor, made an appeal before the House committee for the Eight-hour Bill. Senator Tillman made a detailed state ment accusing a number of federal judges i f doing questionable things. 'I he Army Appropriation Hill, carry ing an appropriation of about $74,000, 000. was passed by the Senate. The Chinese government now insist? that foreign consulates be established on leased lands. Vice President Pond, of the Haiti more and Ohio Railroad, testified be fore the Interstate Commerce Commis sion regarding the sale of the company's interest in the Consolidated Coal Com pany. He was ordered despite his pro test to produce the contract. President Roosevelt attended the an nual exercises of the Columbia Institu tion for the Deaf and Dumb at Kcnda.l Green. The Isthmian Canal Commission de cided to ask for an apropriation of $26, 348,2X1 to continue work 011 the Pa-na-' ma Canal. The House passed the Military Acade my and the Agricultural Appropriation bills. The German government has proposed I June 28 next as the date for the first j meeting of the international Conference at Berlin to consider the regulation of wireless telegraph. Secretary Taft notified Chairman Phe lan, of the San Francisco finance com mittee, that the money appropriated by Congress must be disbursed by officials of the War Department. The House Committee on Military Af fairs authorized a favorable report o'n the bill providing bronze medals tor volun teers who served over their time in the Philippines. The United States drydock Dewey passed out of the Suez " Canal safely Tucsdav. DEAD LETTERS CLEARED UP. la April 667.IG0 of Tbcra Were Received ind Opened. Washington, D. C. (Special). In the division of dead letters upward of 500, 000 letters were on hand unopened at the beginning of the calendar year, and there has been a daily receipt of up ward of 20,000 letters since that time. The fact that the work is now up to date proves the character of service which is being rendered. The April report of Superintendent Young shows that 6(17,100 letters were ; received and opened during April, K.ooo ! of which contained money to the amount ! of $5,592.24. During April, 1005, 637,- 1.10.1 lptl.srs wit., ro, w.;,-.., I f t i .vi .......... I and 7,600 carried over unopened. During the monrti just past 114,857 dead letters were returned to writers, as' against 106,308 for the month of March. Warned to Keep Peace. Harrisburg, Fa., (Special). Governor Penny-packer issued a proclamation in reference to the industrial disturbances in Pennsylvania, in which he calls upon all citizens to assist in the maintenance of the law and declares that violence will not be tolerated. The Governor, in his proclamation, calls upon "all citizens by their conduct, example and utterances, whether printed or verbal, to assist in the maintenance of the law." May Again Ask President. Columbus, Ohio (Special). A general joint conference of all "stand-pat" opera, tors of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois is to lu- I held Wednesday morning at the Audi j toriuni Annex, Chicago. It is under- stood to be the plan of the operators i again to call upon President Roosevelt j to use his inllueucc in bringing about I arbitration of the differences between 1 the miners and operators of the three ; States. j V ork ror 1,500 Miners. Pittsburg (Special). The differences between the United Mine Workers of the Pittsburg District and the Great Lakes Coal Company, at Kaylor, Pa., have been satisfactorily adjusted and work will be at once resumed. The agree ment is based on the 1903 scale with the concessions since obtained, and is for two years. About 1,500 men were effected. 27,000 On Canal Pay RolL Panama. (Hy Cable). The Panama Canal Company had 27,000 employes on its rolls during he mouth of April. Five thousand of these were paid in gold and ',000 in silver. The number of men at work exceed!' by 9,cko the greatest number the French company ever had in its employ. MICH IN LITTLE. The Transvaal mines yielded $104, oco.000 worth of gold for the year KX.5. Thirty-nine thousand Salvation Army meetings are held every week, mill the average 'number of weekly open air meet ings is 37.000. The average attendance t the indoor meetings only every week is l.-'o.-MJ;. ( Kosiiig invented the "steam printing press. His partner, Hensley, cheated him. Koenig, to siqiport life, had to sell his patents. He died a poor machinist, working for about $8 a week. Cotton is king in Manchurian imports, and bean products hold a similar place in the export tiaele. At the same time, the chief produce for home consumption both for man and b.;ut, is millet and kaoliang. Italy succeeded, by means of her pur chase' in Spain and other parts and het conceptions of cotton seed and othei oils, in exporting during Ki.j more than 40,000,000 kilos of olive oils, almost all superior grades, notwithstanding the fact that her own oil crop did not enable her to ship auy part of the quantity ex-. Dorted. " IKE IEYSICSE STATE Th Litest Pennsylvinln Newt Told In 5 ' Order. Francis Morris Wintcrbotlom, a year-old boy, of I.cnni, was awards verdict of $3000 damages by a jury i Media against the central division, adclphia, Baltimore & Washington Raj, road Company for the loss of a leg. Xorrisown sent the first installment 0I $0,500 of its $9,000 relief money raised to aid San Francisco, to James O IV lan, of that city. - F. B. Coleman, of Philadelphia, Witt fined $10 and costs for running an auto, mobile through Xorristown at an illcni speed. He was observed by the police while traveling along one of the marked courses. Forest fires which prevailed in the mountains north of Pine Grove wc quenched by the heavy thunder showtrj of Wednesday night. I. H. Hummc, , constable, ha.s offered a reward for in. formation which will lead to the arrest of the persons who started the fires. John P. Martin's general store at Vlnt Grove, was robbed of shoes and other articles to the value of $140. Lansdalc is the center of an industrial boom that has resulted in an miprect dented demand for houses suitable for homes of working men. The superintendent of one foundry plant is quoted as sayiny, "We cnulj and would employ thirty more moulders, necessitating an aggregate increase oi our force by seventy-five employees, i we could guarantee the rental of at least thirty houses. Unless we can increase our force we may be compelled to close our plant and move elsewhere. We dos. eel it once, but if we have to do so again it will certainly mean removal from Lansdalc. At Ambler a building boom, expected to result in the erection of possibly 200 houses, has already passed the ciiibry. onic state, and within the next year tliit hustling Montgomery County town ex pects to increase its population by possi- n:y 1000 people. Gaetano Lavcllc, an Italian, was con victed of murder in the second degree at West Chester for shooting Joseph B, Carpenter at Coatesville last January. As soon as the verdict was announcer! Levalle made a desperate attempt 10 commit suicide. He had a sharp spoon handle hidden in a handkerchief, lie pretended to wipe the prcspiration from from his forehead and suddenly thrust the sharp instrument into his mouth and tried to cut his throat. Quick ac tion of a prisoner, who was beside him and who grabbed his arm, probably saved the man's life. After the struggle in the prisoner's dock Lavcllc fell in a fit and was carried from the courtroom. Robert P. Bliss, of Chester, was ap pointed secretary of the Pennsylvania Traveling Free Library Commission, vice Miss Mary E. Krickbaum, of Chambers burg, resigned. Mrs. George Doubts, of Thorndale, a few miles cast of Coatesville, discovered a man attempting to break into a second story room. She called her husband and he shot at the man as .he jumped from the porch roof. Doubts returned to bed not knowing he had hit the fugitive and was unaware he had killed a man until next day, when the dead body of Lewis Mitnily, a track walker on the Pennsyva nia Railroad, was found near his home with a gunshot wound in his breast. The ball fits the empty shell in Doubt's re volver and he gave himself up to the police authorities. Miss Hannah Murdaugh, wdio resided in the main part of Oxford, was stricken with apoplexy at the supper table, and died twenty minutes later. An invalid sister was unable to help her. Three other children in the family died in the same manner some years ago. Warden Keibe, of Retdsville, caused the arrest of James Hrownwell, Roy and David Barrett, brothers, on ihe charge cf having in their possession 14 brook trout, under the six-inch limit allowed by law. They were fined ten dollars for each of the fourteen fish, and paid the fine. Mayor!. P. McCaskey, of Lancaster, who, for fifty years was principal of the Hoy's High School, has adopted a novel method of treating with boys who ap pear in police courts and whose offenses are not too flagrant. Instead of punish ing them he delivers a heart to heart talk and compels the juvenile offenders lo read a chapter in the Bible. The boys are then admonished to read their Bibles at home and discharged. Edmund Stewart, dairymen and farm er, died at his home, in Ridley Park, aged 64 years, from cancer. He owed one of the largest farms along the river iron:. Lewis Miller, a conductor on the Nit tany Valley Railroatl, was killed Wed nesday. He had just made a coupling and in stepping back his foot slipped be tween the guard rail and main track and he was thrown down and one car ran over him causing instant death. About two years ago he had a brother killed on the same road and about 0 year ago another brother badly injured. Girardville had its worst fire scare in many years. At about II o'clock the other night smoke was seen issuing from the residence of James Caton, on West Main Street, and .although the fire de partment responded promptly to the alarm, before they could get a stream into play the building was enveloped in flames. In a short time adjoining build ings took fire and the authorities deemed it necessary to ask for assistance from surrounding towns. Ashland responded and by 2 o'clock the fire was under con-, trol, Eight frame tenement houses were destroyed, together with the contents of the Canton property, where the fire origi nated. The loss is $ti,ooo. ' Because of the increase in member ship the Lutheran congregation at Spring Grove will tear down their present place fof worship and erect a new church cost ing between $35,000 and $40,000. James P.. Ream, 60 years old of York, dropped dead while working on the lawn in the yard of Dr. G. P, Yost. Death was due to heart disease. The Canton Bridge Company, of Can- ton, Ohio, was awarded the contract foi the erection of a bridge over the Kis Hminetas Riverit Salina, at its bid ol $"S.sy In Southeast Cass Township, Mrs. Mary N'overeck, 30 years of age, mar ried her fourth husband. He is Michael Obelski and is one year her senior. The briele says she doesn't think marriage a failure by any means and will wed again in the event of the death of her most recent lord and master. In Colusa County, California, recently, Miss Florence Berker ran against her father, P. F. Berker, the incumbent, for the office of school trustee and beat him after a hot campaign. She did it be cause she had heard her father iuteiiekeE 'to oust a female leachter who was ai friend of hers.
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