TRWHlOrSFHCE" IS THEIR OBJECT 4fftirnatfonal Congress Opens In Carnegie Hall. WILLIAM T. STEAD AS A KHOCKER. al Opening of the Peace Congress Before a Brilliant and Cosmopolitan Audience Andrew Carneitie and Ilia Party Arrive Late, a Their Train From Pittsburg Was Delayed. New York (Special) .With repre antatlves of tlio leading nation of the world present, the National Ar bitration and Peace Congress was formally opened Sunday night In Carnegie Hall before an audience that taxed the capacity of the spaci ous auditorium. Two strange flags hung over the stage. They were silk Stnvs and Btrlpos set Into a field of white satin, which enclosed tho emblem on all aides. A golden angel, bearing In one and a palm leaf, supplanted the usual war eagle or pike head on the toff, broad bands of White inscribed With the golden word "Peace." were suspended from the feet of the an gle. This Is the flag of the state to come tho united stntes of the fed erated nations of peace for the has tening of whose coming the first na tional peace conference has met. Directly in front of Andrew Car negi" 'a box in the first tier hung the yellow flag of Scotland, with the roaring lion clawing the edge of the box. The stage itself was typical of the epoch of eternal peace. Sliver tars sprinkled a broad hanging of White and the eagles and arrows of tho American shield were carefully screened by the Innocuous symbol of brotherhood. Carnegie Came Late. By a mishap to the train service, Mr. Carnegie, who was to have pre sided, and the delegates appointed by tho Kmperor of Germany and many of those from France, Belgium ad England, who had been tho iron master's guests at the opening of the Carnegie Institute, at Pittsburg, last week, were not ou the stage, but ar riving late, took seats in tho boxeB Iter tho evening's session had got well under way. The music was given by the Ora torio Society of Now York with full orchestra, under the direction of Frank Damrosch, and a hymn Invok ing; peace on earth, the words of Which were written by D. W. Warren, was rendered with magnificent effect, tho audience of over 3,000 Joining in the singing. In front of the Oratorio Society sat some of the men who are to take part in the deliberations of the peace con ference. Among these were Rabbi Emll G. Hirsch, of Chicago; Bishop Henry C. Potter, Monslgnor Larelle, Dr. Frederick Lynch, Georgo Foster Peabody. Booker T. Washington and Dr. Charles E. Jefferson. Rabbi Hindi's Address. Rabbi Hirsch. of Chicago, was the first speaker of the evening. He was In good voice and his words were dis tinctly heard In the balcony He said, in part: "Battle-cradled Judah's early poet ry, like the youthful strains of the awakening, national consciousness among other peoples, running In mel odies singing of gory victories, and sounding the crash of clashing words, the whir and stir of flying arrows. It is the mighty 'God of War' whom it invokes and proclaims, and to read the significance of the universe's revolving and changeful sceneries the Hebrew bard's lyre bor rows symbol and sign from camp and contest. Stars are an arm Bent forth in nightly raic to defeat the tormcloud's daring minions. Tide and tempest, roaring sea and raven ous abyss are giant warriors leaping to the fray. Thus mythology and the nascent nation's vivid memories of recent feuds and broils vie with each other to lend glamor to the horors of the man-wasting battleground. "But In the noontide fulness of the nation's maturity Judah's muse and ecstasy gives a vision of purer and softer tints and tones. They sing of peace. They prophesy of swords turned into plow shares. They pict ure God enthroned as judge over the dwellers of his footstool. His de cisions render superflou3 the appeal to arms. The art of war is forgot ten In consequence. Not ns one des tined to snatch his laurel from a torrent of blood, but ay one waving the palm undeflled by grime of mur der, they name and hall the future ruler or their nation 'Prince of peace.' "The consecration of Israel's pro phetic assurance is upon us. Tho glad day of its fulfilment Is nenrlng. Let them doubt who will. Ours Is the fervent faith that vindicates the Xorevision." Attorney Sent To Prison. Washington, (Special). Among the prlsoneis gent from this city to the Muundsvllle (W. Va. I Peniten tiary was Thomas f Fields, on at torney, who was sometime ago con victed of embezzlement of the fundi of tho Washington Beneficial Endow, ment Association, of which he was receiver, and sentenced to live years' imprisonment at hard labor. Fields carried his aupcal to the Supreme Court of the Uulied States, but with out avail. THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Domestic Editor Stead's annoirncement In his speech at the Caruegle institute dedicatory ceremonies of his plan for raising $100,000 for a pllgrlmngc from all countries to The Hague Peaco Conference met with ready re spouse. Silver coins were showered upon the stage by the audience, and representatives of a numher of col leges promised contributions. The Joint congressional postal commission, after 11 session In New York, Issues a statement expressing the opinion that great economies can be effected by establishing modern, up-to-date business methods In con ducting the business. Frederick Pnbat, n millionaire brewer, and Mrs. Leon Bnrnlckel, wife of an athletic Instructor, were seriously Injured In an automobile accident at Milwaukee. The Appellate Division If the New York Supreme Court granted a mo tion to disbar George Burnhara, Jr., who was convicted of a felony. The Protestant Episcopal Church Congress, at New Orleans, discussed the right of the preacher to discuss social questions In the pulpit. The Appellate Court in Chicago declared the public policy forbids the recovery of insurance on a person ex ecuted for murder. Distinguished diplomats and edu cators from several nations attended the dedicatory ceremonies of the Carnegie Institute nt Pittsburg. President Roosevelt sent a letter, and Mr. Cnrnegle and Baron de Con stant ( French r epresentative of The Hague Peace Tribunal) delivered ad dresses. Fred 8chultz, yeggman, was sen tenced to Auburn State Prison for life by Justice Arthur E. Sutherland for the killing of Watchman Edward Pullman at Sodus, Wayne County, N. Y. The cotton compress In Chlckasha. I. T., together with a vast amount of cotton, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss estimated at $1,000, 000. The Jury in the rebate case of the General Electric Company and New York Central Railroad, In Syracuse, N. Y., disagreed. The Attorney General of New York has Instituted proceedings to restrain a combine of the telephone companies. The jury In Minneapolis found the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad guilty of granting rebates. Mrs. Sylvester T. Smith, wife of a wealthy railroad official, living in Chicago, Jumped into Lake Michigan. Robert C. Ogden, of New York, was re-elected president of the Con- ferenoe for Education In the South. The Pennsylvania House of Repre sentatives passed a bill to tax an thracite coal. Regis H. Post will bo inaugurated governor of Porto Rico on April 17. Four hundred men employed In a hat factory at Orange, N. J., went on strike against a regulation bar ring them from bringing beer into the shop in working hours. It now appears that the presiden tial election in Cuba will not take place for a year, and that American troops will hardly leave the island before January, 1909. A resolution was passed by the House of tho Minnesota legislature recommending that President Roose velt be nominated to succeed him self for president. Howard Nicholas and Leonard Leo pold were convicted in Chicago of the murder of Mrs. Margaret Leslie, the actress, and the former sentenc ed to life imprisonment and the lat ter to 14 years. SEVEN FOR CONVICTION FIVE FOR ACQUITTAL The Cosing Scenes In The Thaw Case. JURY WAS HOPELESSLY DIVIDED. Jerome Declares He Will Fight Propo sition to Bail Out lhaw, and Prisoner Will Probably Spend Sum mer in Jail Jury Wide Apart on First Degree. HOW THE Jl'RY STOOD. On the first ballot the Jury ' ' stood eight for conviction of mur- j der In the first degree and four 1 for acquittal on the ground of In- j sanity. j Some of the eight were willing I to meet the four half way on a I compromise verdict, but the four ! ! refused to alter the views they . held. The four favoring acquittal fin- I i ally won over one of the eight I who had believed Thaw guilty. The evidence called for by the ! Jury was at the request of this ' one juror, and the documents turned his vote to Thaw. Six of the eight favoring con- I vlctlon once voted for man- laughter, in an effort to reach a compromise. Throughout the eight ballots four never wavered from acquit- tnl, and one always voted for con- vlctlon. On the final ballot the I lineup was seven for conviction j i and five for acquittal. Strawberries Nipped. Wilmington, N C. (Special) It la believed that great damage fcaj been done to strawberries and vege tables in tire Wilmington trucking belt by the continued cold of the past two nights Sunday the mini mum, temperature was but four de grees above freezing, and even mor ; severe weather Is predictod by tire weather bureau, with a heavy frost, which might prove , disastrous to many crops. Snow Is reported wltlilp. 40 miles of Wilmington. Columbus Disputed fhir d Out. Columbus, O. (Special). The Hlx tory Brickell-Mlthoff Building, ou Hlght Street, a square north of tho 3tate Houbo, and occupied by the Evening Dispatch, a newspaper plant and also the three story Hoster Building adjacent, were practically destroyed by fire. The loss is es timated at $300,000. The Dispatch plant is water soaked, and tho upper Boor, holdli.8 the engraving pi.:. it, i complctely burned out. I oreign. Missionaries In China appeal to Americans to raise $3,000,000 for re lief of the starving Chinese, thou sands of whom are dying dally. So horrible are the conditions that par ents are exchanging their babes to be eaten. Lieutenant General Sir Robert Mac Oregor Stewart. K. C. B., haB ten dered to the British Colonial Office his resignation as governor and commander-in-chief of the colony of Ber muda. A cablegram received from the American COUSUl, dated at Managua, announces that Amapala has been surrendered by Bonllla and that the Central American war Is ended. It Is reported that King Edward and King Victor Emmanuel, who have respectively left the Balearic Islands and Greece, will meet at Va letta, Island of Malta. A demand for the exclusion from the Douma of throe Socialist depu ties pending their trial for political offenses caused Intense excitement. The Swiss Parliament adopted a bill providing for I new military or ganization which, it Is expected, will greatly strengthen the army. A Brazllllan squadron left Por nambuco for Hamilton Roads to take part in the Inauguration of the Jamestown Exposition. The corporation of Glascow has accepted an invitation to send a deputation to Chicago for the pur pose of inspecting the sanitary con ditions of the packing-houses and stockyards. Threatened revolution in Salvador and Guatemala, started at. the sug gestion of President Zelaya, of Nica ragua, will complicate the Central American situation. Mrs. Grace Red path, widow of Peter Redpath, of Montreal, who died in London recently, left $150,- 000 to McUIll University, Montreal. Four hundred thousand Chines are now being kept from starving by foreign relief. The ministerial situation in Bel glum is again acute, and it is said the ministers have offered the King their resignation. Emile Benolst, a banker, was shot and killed in the office of a financial paper in Paris of which he was the editor. The Russian Minuter of Marine is urging the hastening of the con struction of the improved type of battleship The British torpedo-boat destroy ers Colno and Falcon were badly damaged in a collision. British Foreign Secretary Qrsy, replying to a question in the House of Commons, repudiated any govern mental connection with William T. Stead's recent tour of the European courts in support of the discussion of the limitation of armaments at the coming peaco conference at The Hague. The cruiser Baltimore sailed trow Gibraltar with the remains of Kui Admisal Kautz and Lieut. Stanley Woods. An attempt to settle the steve dores' strike and lockout In Ham burg was frustrated by tha Harbor truffle Union. New York (Special). The long-drawn-out trial of H. K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, which has interested the people of two con tinents for the past 11 weeks, ended late Friday afternoon In a disagree ment of the Jury, which had been out nearly two days. The Jury was Im mediately discharged. The final bal lot stood seven for conviction of murder In the first degree and five for acquittal on the ground of In sanity. Thaw was at! once taken back to the Tombs. Application that he be released on bail will undoubtedly be made very soon, but It Is regarded as almost certain that this applica tion will be denied. District Attor ney Jerome announced immediately after the Jury's discharge that Thaw would be tried again, though not for several months. Ou tho final ballot the Jurors who voted for conviction were Foreman Demlng B. Smith, George Pfaff, Charles H. Fecke, Harry C. Brearly, Charles D. Newton, Joseph H. Bol ton and Bernard Gerstman. The five who hung out for acquittal were Oscar A. Pink, Henry C. Harney, Malcolm F. Fracer, John S. Dennee and Wilbur F. Steele. At 4.25 the door opened and the jury filed In, headed by Juror Smith. Every eye in the courtroom was upon them as they passed down the aisle and Into the Jury box. The first im pression was one of surprise that they looked in such good condition. For men who slept so few hours and had been under such constant mental strain for so long they looked amaz ingly fresh and strong. Not one of tho jurors looked like a man who wos about to send a fellow-creature to the executioner. Sev eral of thom exchanged smiles. Juror Harney looked particularly amiable and satisfied. The composite Impression produced was that of 12 men who had tried hard to complete an Impossible task, and whose prin cipal feeling was one of satisfaction that their labor and responsibility were over. DEFENDS THE UNIFORM. Department Anxious To Remove Slur Cast Upon Soldiers, Washington (Special). The War Department Is determined to pursue to the end of Its legal resources the effort to remove the slur cast upon the uniforms of the American sol dler by the decision last January of a local magistrate at Plattsburg. N. Y , that Sergeant Hlgglns and the soldiers who accompanied to a public skating rink in that town had no case warranting the impo sition of a penalty upon the proprie tors of the place. Thursday Acting Secretary Oliver wrote a letter to the Attorney Gen eral asking his help in tho prosecu tion of this case. The Attorney General is requested to give an opin ion upon the point whether or not, (he local magistrate having declared that the keepers of the rink were not subject to penal punishment, they still can be reached by a suit for monetary damages. In case of an affirmative answer the Depart ment of Justice is requested to au thorize the proper attorney for the i'nited States to appear for the sol diers in the prosecution of the case. ARMED GUARD ON ROAD Pennsylvania's Plan For Catching Trainwrecktrs. Pittsburg. Pa. (Special). In or der to devise ways nnd means for stopping the epidemic of train wreck ing officials of the Pennsylvania met here In conference at the office of Superintendent Long, for the Pitts burg Division. President McCrea was also in the conference part of the time by long-distance phone from Philadelphia. After the meeting the following authorized statement was made: "At a meeting of the officials of the lines both east and west, held here to discuss both ways and means of getting at the train wreckers, It was decided that tracks must be patroled and even, If necessary, to put armed guards on each and every 100 yards of track from New YOfll to Chicago. This will be done in order to get at the wreckers, and It was further the sense of the meet ing that once caught the entire wealth of the Pennsylvania Railroad would be put back of their trial in an effort to convict. And, further, it was decided bost to work for the passage of a bill through the state legislature which Increases the pen alty for train wrecking where no lives are lost from 10. years, the present limit, to 25 years for the first attempt and 50 years for the second attempt. "The Pennsylvania Railroad de sires the public to know it is sparing no money In trying to run down the vandals who are wrecking trains. Every detective along the entire Pennsylvania system, as well as every private agency we can hire and the police in towns through which the road passes, have been pressed Into service. It is necessary that the railroad run down these vandals and Imprison them, at least, and It will be done." There have been several arrests In the Pittsburg district within the last 18 hours, and In all cases those arrested are being held. PEACE PROBLEM. Slow Progress Being Mode In Wash ington. Washington (Special). A day of conference between the Central American representatives here in the effort to reach a basis for peace had no marked results. Having deci phered the cable response from his own government to tho propositions submitted to him by the representa tives of Salvador and Guatemala, Senor Coren, the Nicaraguan minis ter, called upon Senor Creel, the Mexican ambassador, who has been taking the part of mediator, and ac quainted him with President Zelnya's answer. e This made necessary further con ferences, which fact was taken as an Indication that the Nicaraguan response was in the nature of a counter proposition. Therefore, Messrs. Corea and Creel repatred to tho State Department to confer with Secretary Root and Assistant Secretary Bacon. ThiB conference also advanced matters only so far as to pavo the way for another con ference, which was held late In the afternoon between Messrs. Creel and Corea and Herrarte and Mejia, the latter two representing Guate mala and Salvador, respectively. It is believed by some of the parties to these conferences that, ow ing to necessity of consulting their home countries at every stage, Im mediate satisfactory results cannot be expected. Pipe Explodes. Tonawanda, N. Y. (Special). "Mike" Vorski, a laborer, picked up on the street a pipe which appeared to be filled with tobacco and lit it. Immediately there was a terrific ex plosion and both his eyes were blown out, his nose flattened out and his scalp partly torn off. He will die. AT THE MTHnrS CAPITAL Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. SECOND CRAND JURY REFDSES TO INDICT HIM Congressman George K. Favrot Is Set Free. King Of Margarine Demi. The Hague (By Cable). The Avondpost announces the death at the age of 88 of Simon Vandeu bergh, founder of the Margarinb fac tory, known throughout the world. The King of Margarine, as he was culled, began business as a small shopkeeper. He was a philanthropist and poor, persecuted Jews never sought his aid in vain when leaving Rotterdam for America. Huymnrket Juror Kills Himself. Chicago (Special). Principal Jas. H. Hrayton, of the Raymond public school, committed suicide at his home, shooting himself in the head. Ill health is believed to have been the cause. Br. Brayton had been con nected with the Chicago schools for thirty years. He was prominent so cially and In Masonic circles, and was a member of the Jury which con victed the Haymarket Anarch 11 In 1887. Against Our Typewriter. Berlin (By Cable). During the discussion by the Budget Committee of the Reichstag of the appropriation to purchase typewriting machines for the military authorities, Dr. Sude turn, Socialist, Introduced a motion providing for the exclusion of Ameri can machines, "because of the pro hibitive effect of the American cus toms duties on German goods." Ilerr Paasche. National Liberal, first vice preldent of the Reichstag, sup lorted the motion. HE KILLED DR. R. H. ALDRICH. Declared That the Physician Made Dis paraging Remarks About Mrs. Favrot -The Shooting Occurred After an Ex citing Election While Favrot Was Still Judge of the Louisiana Court. Baton Rouge, La. (Special) Dem ocratic Congressman George K. Fav rot was set free, after having been In jail continuously for about five months, under arrest on a charge or murder and awaiting action of a grand Jury. Thursday the second grand Jury refused to indict the Congressman. Mr. Favrot last November shot and killed Dr. R. H. Aldrlch. of .Baton Rouge. The Congressman declared that the physician had mnde dis paraging remarks about Mrs. Fav rot. Favrot was at the time of the shooting still judge of the Baton Rouge court which Thursday set Hm free. He resigned, nnd was Indicted by a grand Jury which had been selected under his jurisdiction. Because one of the Jurymen who indicted him was Illiterate the finding was quashed. The monument to the Rough Rid ers in Arlington Cemetery was dedi cated. President Roosevelt made an address at the ceremony, touching mainly on patriotism and good citi zenship. The joint board of the Army and Navy has determined to establish closer relations between the person nel of the seacoast fortifications 'of the Army and the forces of the Navy. President Roosevelt announced that he will say nothing upon the ques tion of railroad regulations or con trol In his addreBg at the opening of the Jamestown Exposition. Attorney General Bonaparte made an argument before the Supreme Court In the employers' liability cases and his address closed the hear ing. The railroads are reported to have practically abandoned their plan to raise freight rateB. Representatives Blnger Hermann, charged with destroying public rec ords, clung tenaciously to his form er denials that he had railroaded the Benson-Hyde-Dlmond patent cases through the department upon the request of the It to Senator Mit chell. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor has ordered a general inquiry Into the management of the various immigrant stations throughout the country. Brigadier General Walter T. Dug- gan was placed on the retired list. The State Department announced officially that the treaty being nego tiated between Great Britain and the United Mates was confined entirely to the qu?stlon of fresh-water fishery and the use of boundary waters, nut including St. Johns River. It has been practically completed. The Interstate Commerce Com mission has divided the country into districts, minor complaints from var ious seiilonB to be heard by differ ent commissioners. W, T. Stead, of London, conferred with President Roosevelt and Sec retary of State Root relative to the forthcoming peace congress at The Hague. The United States Secret Service reports the discovery of bo,- . ten and twenty dollar notes. The President appointed Oscar R, Hundley United Stales district judge for Alabama. Federal officials secured the ar rest in Lowell, Mass., of Michael latros, Greek consul st Lowell, Mass., on the charge of getting con traband Immigrants into this country. George K. Favrot was district Judge of the Baton Rouge Judicial district. He had served in that ca pacity with honor and distinction. Just one day before he killed Dr. Aldrlch he had been elected to the United States Congress from the Sixth Louisiana District, defeating Col. Samuel M. Robertson, father of the Louisiana delegation in Congress, who had served there 20 years. Judge Favrot stood on the thres hold of a career as promising as ever a young Southerne- faced. Reputa tion, honor and distinction had come to him. Then Judge Favrot met Dr. Ald rlch In the passageway of the Rey mond Building and without a word shot him to death. Ho surrendered and next day sent his resignation to Gov. Newton C. Blanchard as dis trict judge. The Governor called special election, which has resulted in the selection of Judge H. F. Bra ndt us district judge. Ho qualified nnd assumed the duties February 5, this being the HrBt time there had been court in the Baton Rogue dis trict since last October. At 6.30 P. M., November 7, Judge Favrot slipped by a party of friends standing on the street, near the en trance to the Reymond Building, shoved the swinging doors, open and disappeared. Before entering ho had stopped and chatted, keeping an eye on the office of Dr. Aldrlch, on the third floor. One of the party suggested: "Judge, you look worried." But he assured thera that he was not, and walked off whistling. In a few minutes Dr. Aldrlch left his office, walked down the steps, as the elevator had stopped running, and started through the passageway, which was dark. At that moment Judge Favrot steppecr inside the swinging doors and the two men met. Three shots were fired, and Dr. Aldrlch fell dead. A revolver was afterward found Inside his waistcoat, but It had not been used. Judge Favrot walked out of the door of the Reymond Building with the smoking pistol in hand. Mayor Bynum, of Baton Rouge; District At torney Wax and other friends, who had been standing acrosB the street In front of the Louisiana Bank Building, rushed over to him, ex claiming: "Judge, what In the world have you done?" "I killed Dr. Aldrlch for sufficient cause." That was the only reply, and with that he surrendered himself to a deputy sheriff and went to Jail. As to the cause of the tragedy, only whispered rumors have ever gained currency. The "unwritten law," however, was the backbone of the defense. It was claimed that Dr. Aldrlch made certain remarks about Mrs. Favrot, which resulted In the Blaylng of Dr. Aldrlch. Favrot's friends said Dr. Aldrlch was the author of certain remarks about Mrs. Favrot which called for an application of the "un written law," and only that would suffice. The written statement of Judge Favrot's lawyers, November 9, Is the only authentic statement made since the tragedy. In fall it was: "Judge Geoge K. Favrot, by ad vice of his counsel, will not make any detailed statement at this time; but he authorizes us to say that the killing of Dr. R. H. Aldrlch resulted from his persistent circulation of slanderouB reports about Judge Fuv rot's wife, which were of such u character as to force Judge Favrot to act, and that complete Justifica tion for such action will be shown at the trial of the case." Poisoned Her Baby. Memphis, Tenn., (Special). The police report that after poisoning her two-year-old baby, Mrs. Clarissa Gold, aged 22 years, attempted sui cide by swallowing a. portion of the same drug. The child died while being conveyed to a hospital, and the womau's condition Is serious. Despondency over domestic affairs is believed to have prompted the act. WILL RE TWO-THIRDS READY Pushing Work At Jamestown For Open ing Day. Jamestown Exposition Ground. Hampton Roads, Va. (Special). ' Two-thirds of the Jamestown Expo sition buildings will bo completed, the rest nearly ready, all but tho educational buildings Installed with their exhibits nnd 8tate and Warpath exhibits in fair Bhapo for the open ing of the Exposition on April 26. It would bo too much to sBy thnt tho Exposition will really be ready for opening, but no exposition ever Is really ready. Three thousand skilled laborers carpenters, brick layers, masons, electricians, etc. anl 700 laborers are at work in the division of works, trying to hurry the outfit to the best state of readi ness. Three steam rollers are run ning over the drives, the landscape Is setting out nicely, the macadam nnd asbltum streets and the grano lithic walks are being whipped into shape, and all the i nrts available are being put to work. The Stntes have been slow, the Warpath erV,,ultors and their con tractors are behind time and the weather has been against the project, hut It cannot bo said in fairness that the Exposition management has not done Its best to realize the expecta tions of those who have perhaps been too sanguine. Delay Caused By Lack Of Funds. There was a tlmo when the ques tion of money was a consideration and a very serious one. Then It was that the Exposition management appealed to Congress for a cold $1, 000,000 toon. Congress was slow. In the meantime the management could not go to a contractor and prod him with no money to back up the prod. To get money takes time. While this time was being taken the management had to bo content with what It got, and it is no secret that the various contractors coolly waved aside the question of haste and waited for development. Just' that much time was lost. It Is one of the Ironies of fate that the time being consumed in getting the loan through was beautiful weather, and the minute it was made cetaln that the Government would back the project It started to rain. It has been raining ever since, with a few short intervnls of clear weather. Today the Exposition grounds pre sent a picture of unfinished roads, loosely thrown heaps of dirt, great piles of crushed stone for paving, unfinished buildings and partially re ceived exhibits. To the layman there is no reason to believe that the grounds nnd buildings will be in shape for the opening, but to Mr. C. Brooks Johnston, chairman of tho board of governors, things look bet ter. Good Progress Under Circumstances. "When the Exposition opens it will be In fine shnpe," he said today. "Considering the opposition we have had from the weather and other cir cumstances, we have made remark able progress. All the buildings con trolled by o the Exposition Company are ready, the exhibits ore making a good showing, tho States are moving In, the Warpath Is being completed rapidly, and we have for our opening day a spectacle which will alone be worth the trip the naval and mili tary maneuvers and the arrival of President Roosevelt. Tnte Exposition grounds, buildings and exhibits will be so nearly ready on the first day that those who have attend other expositions will be surprised. 01 course, there 1b bound to be a cer tain unfinished condition of things, but this will interfere with nothing in the way of pleasure and instruc tion." I 'rim -pi 1 1 1 .u ion Could Bo Better. In the office of Mr. W. E. Cottrell, who has charge of the division of public works, it was reported that all possible help in the way of labor is being rapidly taken advantage of. The traffic department reports that transportation facilities will bo ade quate, although tills is not at all certain to the casual visitor, who Is compelled to hang to a strap over nine miles of not too even roadbed of the Traction Company, being crowded out of a seat or comfortable standing room by the normal travel of workmen and concessionaries. The Tidewater Railroad people have arranged to transfer cars of all other roads direct to the Exposition grounds, which helps some. There will be two trolley lino3 working, with a promise of sufficient rolling stock to run on a two-minute or such schedule, as is considered safe. Numerous steamboat companies have applied for permission to land at the deep-sea pier, and othor boats which can go Into shallow water seven feet at low tide, with a tide of two feet will land at the commercial pier. STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Latest News Gleaned From Various Parts. Washington Ignorant Or It. Washington (Special) "We know absolutely nothing of tho matter here," said Secretary Loeb. when his attention was cnlled to the Chris tian a dispatch published saying that a local newspaper there had announc ed that President Roosevelt, who was awarded the Nobel peace prize last year, will have to deliver a lecture In Cbrlstianla in March, 1909, In order to comply with the rules affect lug the holders of the Nobel prizes. The Russell Sago Foundation. Albany, N. Y. (Special). Govern or Hughes signed tho new law in corporating the names of Margaret Olivia Sage, Robert W. Deforest, Cleveland H. Dodge, Daniel C. Oil man, John M. Glenn, .Helen Gould, (tertrmli- M. Rice and Louisa D. Schuyler, together with sucli persons as they may associate with them selves as the Russel Sage Founda tion 'or the purpose of maintaining a fund and applying the income to the lmpovement of social and living conditions In the United Btatas. IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. Harrlman was re-elected president of Southern Pacific. The Bank ot England reduced its discount rate from 5 to 1 ',4 per cent. Ail advices from Wall Street were to the effect that business on the Exchange was entirely professional. There is an entire lack of public buy ing. A big drop In tho price of Rio Tinto, the biggest copper mine of Europe or the whole world, indicate the feeling about the copper metal market abroad. Mayor Reyburn, or' Philadelphia, wus consulting banker) with regard to the city's $13,500,000 loan, the rate of Interest ou which Is to be In creased from 3 ,4 to 4 per cent. A number of loading Philadelphia banking firms arc lending call money at 5 per cent. It Is proposed to increase the size of the Executive Committee of Union Pacific In order that Harrlman may not continue to have sole control ot that company's affalro. So far this year the shipments of coal und coko on the Pennsylvania lines east amount. -J to 14,822,000 tons, an Increase of 364,000 over the same period in 1906. This gain Is considerable leas than the gain of Inst year over 1906. The "Iron. Ago" says ot ths pig iron trade: "Tho March product of tha coke and anthracite blast fur naces was 2,225,176 tons, as com pared with 2,045,068 tons in Febru ary, a short month, and 2, 235,300 tons In the record month, December. While on the face of it this looks as though March hud been larger than February, as n matter of fact th dally rate of production lu March was only 71,780 tons, as compared with that of 71,088 tons for February." In an attempt to save a feuo-w-workraan, John McGulre. from being crushed underneath a car, John O'Hara, a car Inspector, was caught underneath the car at Cre ;son and was so seriously Injured that he will die. McGulre was underneath a car making repairs, when O'Hara seeing that the train was about to moy, attempted to save his .comrade. Hte succeeded in dragging Mc.Otilro from underneath the car, but In the effort had his right foot caught under he wheels. Choked to death by the band of his shirt was the fate of George 3mlth, at Cressona. Ho was taken with a spasm during the night and was found with his head hanging jut of the bed. His shirt was con tacted to such an extent that ho ilrangled, his face and neck being lack and swollen. When the u against Edward VI. Earle, of Easton, and James J. Ullesple, of Allentown, charged wfih jtterlng forgeries, came up at EaB '.on, Earle pleaded guilty to having dgned the name of his aunt, Mrs. M. Brinkerhoff to various notes vhlch he had given to Gillespie, ur loteB starting from small sums and? ieing doubled on renewal. Earle .hen went on the stand and told all 'he circumstances. The TrI-County Medical Socloy, 'rom Chester, Delaware and Mont gomery Counties, met In the Impernl :Iotel, Chester, and celebrated tBe innlversary of the birth of Dr. Salti iel Hahnemann. Many physicians, were present and Dr. Thomas B. Dunning, of Philadelphia, read a me moir on the life of Hahnemann. FtS lowlng the 'meeting a planked shad i Inner was served. The meeting wan presided over by Dr. Edward S. Haines, of Rutledge, the president af the association. Dr. Jonathan L. Forwood, wBo last week observed his fiftieth an niversary as a practicing physlclqn, was presented with a solid silver gold-lined loving cup, by the Dem ware County Medical Society at Ches ter, of which Dr. Forwood is presi dent, at its annual meeting. Dr. p. W. Jefferls, the next oldest doctor In point, of service In the county, made the speech. Preceding the pre sentation the society was addressed by Prof. George E. Deschwelntta, Jefferson College, Philadelphia, whose subject was "Drug Disease'" A heavy blouse she wore becoming tangled in a loom at the Crozer MlTtj), Upland, resulted In a broken nose and lacerations of the face and body for Mrs. Elizabeth McGill, a weaves. The fact that the blouse was ot thick material, and stopped the ma chinery, saved the woman from fatal; injury. The loom had to be takH apart, requiring a hour before tDe woman could be released. William Seymour, an assistant mine foreman, In the employ of Coxte Brothers and Company, Hazleton, for the past thirty years, was so ba squeezed between an air motor al a prop, that he died from the effecte. He was 52 years of age and toe: father of twenty-o.ie children, all me I living. The body of Miss Rebecca Sax, the 17-year-old daughter of Mrs. Mary Sox, who disappeared from her: home in Easton on March 19, wfta found floating in the Lehigh K!vt. Miss Sox left a note to her mother, saying she Intended to jump lnlo the water from the Suspension Bridge. She also selected her pan bearers, minister and undertaker. Mrs. Elizabeth Yarnall, 94 yeass of age, fell and broke her hip at ntr home in Eagmont Township, Dela ware County. Compressed air engine service is' to be installed in the Baltimore and Red Ash veins of the mines at Max well colliery, No. 20 breaker, at Ash ley, thus disposing of mule servfue in those veins. The amount of freight business- on the Pennsylvania Railroad between Wllkes-Barre and Sunbury necessi tates a double track. Many curvje and grades will be eliminated ts tween Bloomsburg and Catawtsaa,! and the work will be done this sum mer. Falling several hundred feet into tho depths of the shaft at the Phoe nix Park Colliery, north of Potrt vllle, Andrew Bein, a miner, wfcs Instantly killed. Frantic from pain, her garments all aflame, a veritable human torch, Mrs. John Schmidt, aged 70 years, of Pottsvllle. jumped from her bed room window upon a porch roof, and burned to death in the presence of hundreds who had gathered and witnessed the pitiable spectacle, but were powerless to aid her. She had gone upstairs with a lamp, which fell from her hands us she reached the top stair because she tripped. The lamp exploded and the blazing kerosene Ignited her clothing. She attempted to put out the fire by wrapping a blanket about her, but In her fright she failed to smother the flames. In her vain efforts to securu help she jumped upon tha roof. There she screamed in her agony. Some one reached her event- uully and tore off her hlazlng gar- - ments, but it was too late, for ny the time the rescuer wus through with his work she was a charred and blackened corpse. After an Illness of five days with organic heart trouble, Henry J. Rlt ter, ;. member of Allentown city council, sank dead at his bedside as he was preparing to retire. Tho York County rural free deliv ery men have passed u series of reso lutions to be referred to the county commissioners, the State highway commissioners and the State conven tion of the Rural Free Delivery As sociation, in which they demand that the common dirt roads be eliminated and macadamized or stone roads be substituted. A large key weighing several hun dred pouuds, used by mechanics in milking pipe connection, fell on Anton Holoda, aged 25 years, at the I Bethlehem Steel Works, iustuutry killiug him. Charles E. Younguian, a Pennsyl vania Railroad brukemau, aged 8it years, was killed by the cars on the Petersburg Branch. While apply ing a brake the chain broke and he fell under the wheels and was crush ed to death. " He was a Spunish Amerlcan War veteran, having serv ed two years In tho Philippine tam palgn Ten will graduate from the Low-. hill-Weisenberg High School, at the commencement exercises at Morgen land Church, on May 9, mid fifteen will receive diplomas at the Hanover commencement exercises, at Bant Catasauqua. on May 17.
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