LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH Domestic Captain Appleby, of the Fall River liner Providence, secured aid by wireless when he discovered his boat afire, and prevented a panic among the passengers, who were transferred to another Bteatner. The shoe factory owned by Arthur C. and Chester U. Williams, at Co chltuate. Mass.. was destroyed by fire, causing an estimated loss of $50.noo. About 160 hands aro thrown out of employment. Secretary Straus announces that President Roosevelt has not ordered any investigation of the stock ex changes. H. A. Deland, founder of Deland, Fla.. and one of the leading business men of Falrport. N. Y.. is dead. Adlmarl Hollyday recommends en larging the Brooklyn dry dock to ac commodate the largest battleships. Ivan R. Coffin, a student of I.ehlgh University, was drowned while shoot ing the Weygot Rapids In n canoe. Hugh Bonner, fire commissioner of New York, died of a complication of Brlght's disease and pneumonia. Fire in Bahla, Brazil, destroyed more than 30 buildings and caused a loss of t, 000. 000. Harry K. Thaw was served with a copy of the summons and complaint in the proceedings brought by his wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, to annul their marriage. A messenger deliver ed the papers to Thaw at the Mattea wan Insane Asylum and about the same time .Mrs. William Copley Thaw, who is made a codefendent, was served at the Hotel Lorraine. Part of the crew of the wrecked American ship Tillle E. Starbuck were adrift a thousand miles out In the Pacific for eight weeks. Lewis H. Hall, a contractor, who traveled from Venezuela to New York to enter a hospital, died on reaching the metropolis. An artist's model, known only as Margaret, who dropped dead on Broudway, New York, spoke four languages. The New York Board of TrMe and Transportation is opposed to the Aid rich Financial Bill. The scout cruiser Birmingham averaged 25 knots an hour on ner ipeed trials. The first international convention ander the direction of the Young People's missionary movement of the United States and Canada opened in Pittsburg. The attack made by Attorney Gen eral Lyon, of South Carolina, upon Judge Pritchard for appointing re ceivers for the dispensary fund has tarted a warm fight there. The convention of Indiana miners at Terre Haute demands that the coming national convention of the order shall ask for a wage increase. Fire which broke out in the store room of the Superior Paper Company, In Kalamazoo, Mich., did damage es timated at between $75,000 and $100,000. Frederick van Eeden, the Hutch sociologist and founder of a commun istic colony in Holland, sioke before the Civic Forum in New York. Samuel L. Hampton, American railroad conductor, under sentence of death in Mexico City for the mur der of a negro, is dying at the hos pital. Mrs. Margaret Deland discussed the "Change in the Feminine Ideal" before the League for Political Edu cation in New York. In a fight in a courtroom in De catur. Ala., W. F. Holland and his son Walter were killed and J. H. Turner fatally Injured. A bill was Introduced in Congress to increase the rate of pay for carry ing the mails on the "Bhort" railroad lines. Dan Hogan, of Pittsburg, shot and killed himself on a Chicago and Northwestern train near Janesvllle, Wis. Frederick Warren Freer, a painter of international reputation, died in Chicago of heart disease. Three young women were drowned while boating on the Appalachle mill pond, near Greer, S. C. Foreign The German torpedo boat S 12 was run into and sunk by an unknown steamer at the mouth of the River Elbe and the chief engineer was drowned, but the remainder of the crew were rescued. . . The Socialist bill declaring every man entitled to employment and com pelling the English authorities to provide it at union wages was reject ed in the House of Commons. A cupy of the cipher of the Ameri can State Department was stolen from the American legation at Bucharest by a French employe. China lias expressed to Japan her willingness to restore the steamer Tatsu Maru arid apologize for haul ing down the Japanese (lag. (en. Giovanni Battlsto DegLorgis, who for some years was chief of the International gendarmerie in Mace donia, died in Rome. The French Academy refused a be quest of $20,iHio by Mile. Louise Le- clerc, who died in New York, because ' of the terms. The Czar contemplates a number of changes In the Russian diplomatic service; some of the olders diplomats to be retired. Slgmund Friedberg, a private hank er of Berlin, who disappeared last months, left assets $2,760, liabilities $1,000,000. Eighteen persons were killed by an avanlanche in the Dukhtarmlnsk dis trict, Russia. Fire destroyed 200 native shacks In the Saniploulc district of Manila on the evoolng of March 11. The damage Is .-si: mated at $100,000 In gold. Government advices from Morocco Indicate that the star of Mulal Hafld, the so-called Sultan of the South, Is waning fast. Six peasants were killed and sev eral others wounded In an encounter with police at Kochetovka, Russia. The Bavarian government has or dered the expulsion of a number of Americau Mormon missionaries. In the Douuia Foreign Minister Iawolsky announced that very cordial relations exist between Japan and Russia. The Porto Rican House of Dele gates passed a bill authorizing the Insular government to operate a lot tery. Italian troop are reported to have killed 460 Sullnjan tribesmen in a battle In Souiallland. The mother of Joseph Santos Ze laya, the president of Nicaragua, died at Managua. Mb . Asps Gould with her children, sailed from Cherbourg for New York. IS ANXIOUS TO BE EIECUTEO Orchard Cheerfully Awaits Death Sentence. PARDON WOULD BE RESISTED. Self-confessed Murderer of Many Men and Chief Witness Against Haywood nd Pettlbene Says Hs Is Ready to Tsk His Punishment Declares He Told Only the TnTlh. Boise, Idaho (Special). -On the morning of his forty-second birthday, next Wednesday, in the District Court of Canyon County, Harry Orchard, confessed murderer of form er Gov. Frank Bteunenberg. who was killed by the explosion of a bomb at the gate of his residence, in Caldwell, on the evening of December :0, 1MB, will face Judge Fremont Wood pre pared to hear the death sentence xueted out to him. Harry Orchard, of his own volition and against the urgent pleadings ot his attorney and others, refused, when arraigned on March 10, to let his previous plea of "not guilty" stand. He also refused to plead to a lesser degree of murder than first degree. He said: "I am guilty and am ready to take my punishment. 1 have told the truth. I understand fully what must be the consequences." Some expressions are heard that Orchard has been guaranteed im munity of some sort. This is denied by those in authority and by Orchard. Those who have been in close com munication with Orchard prison of ficers and spiritual advisers--all ex press the opinion that should nn ef fort be made to commute his sen tence or pardon him. Orchard will re fuse to accept the lenity. It is the general belief that Or chard expects to die, and that he wishes to suffer the extreme penalty for his crimes. Orchard refuses to make any statement for publication. He spends much time with books, es pecially the Bible and religious works. Orchard was the chief witness against Haywood and Pettlbone, who were prosecuted In connection with outrages attributed to the Western Federation of Miners. SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Assassins Severely Wound Till' Wrong Men. Dixon, Ky. (Special). Fatal wounding of Deputy Marshal Smith Chllders by Jacob McDowell, a negro, at Providence, Ky., was the indirect cause of the shooting of two travel ing men. P. B. Carter, of Chattanoo ga, and J. B. Barry, commercial trav elers, were shot and severely wound ed from ambush by negroeB while driving between Dixon and Provi dence with two other drummers, 'lue negroes who did the shooting evi dently thought that the salesmen were pursuing McDowell. Deputy Marshal Chllders was shot while attempting to arrest McDowell. The negro was taken to Dixon by an other officer. White men immediate ly gathered to lynch McDowell. Negroes of Providence, hearing this, armed themselves and lay In wait by the road over which the mob was expected to pass. The traveling men soon came along, and the am bushed negroes fired on them and escaped. McDowell was hurried from Dixon to Henderson. The mob. arriving at the Dixon jail at 2 o'clock A. M., and finding Mc Dowell gone, set out with blood hounds to find the negroes who had fired on the traveling men. Will Mc Dowell, a coiiBln of the prisoner; Tom Fuqua, Tom Miller and another negro were arrested charged with shooting the traveling men. The mob has not found the four negroes, and probably will not go to Henderson after McDowell. FRATERNITIES ABOLISH KB. Mask egos Bum ni of BSdswattoB says Tliey Are Snobbish. Muskegon, Mich. (Special). The Board of Education voted that all high school fraternities and sororie tles must, be abolished from the pub lic schools of Muskegon before March 20. The three fraternities and two sor orities In the schools have a mem bership of about 200. Opposition to the societies on the ground that they breed snobbishness nnd lawlessness and lower the standard of scholar ship was brought to a climax by the action of one fraternity In harboring a skeleton and bell stolen from the schools. MURDERER GIVES WARNING. Before Hanging He Tells Men To Shun Bad Women And Drink. Pittsburg. Pa. (Special). Morris B. Holmes, 23 years old, was hanged in the Allegheny County jailyard. He stabbed Nancy Miller, his sweet heart, to death with a butcher knife March 27, 1907, at East Pittsburg. He had been drinking heavily, and said he never remembered having committed the crime. Just before going to the gallows Holmes said to his former pastor, Rev. Charles Miller, of the Home wood Methodist Episcopal Church: "Please, for me, sound a warning to all young men to shun, as though hell, bad women and whisky." fjovcrnnu-nt Pafier Hum. il Carlisle, Pa. (Special). The large Blockhouse of the Mount Holly Pa per Company's plant, at Mount Holly Springs, this county, which has for many years produced federal and state bond paper, was burned to the ground. It was fired by sparks from a passing locomotive. Several car loads of fine government paper in the stockhouse were to have been sent to Washington tomorrow. The loss is estimated at $20,000. SOME 000 STORIES IS TOLD BY WIRE otter, Geese, And Carp At One Haul. New York (Special). Wosley Ja cobus, a farmer, living on Hook Mountain, near Towaco, N. J., shot, Into a flock of wild geese, which rose from a marshy Inlet of the Passaic River and brought down two. He was surprised a moment later to see another goose rise Into the air. thirty feet, again and again, only to fall to tho ground. Upon Investigation he discovered that the goose was caught on a set line nearly five hundred feet long, with fifty hooks set at Intervals. A section of the line was on the land, and the goose had swallowed one of the baits of this section. Following up the line. Jacobus found It drawn down Into a hole under a stump. Pulling the line, he dragged out of the hole a snap Ing, snarling otter, which In some way had been caught by one of Its feet on a hook. But this was not all, for on that part of the line still In the water upon the last hook, Jacobus found an eighteen pound German carp. Fisherman Hooks A Willing Trout. Mlllvllle, N. J. (Special). Miss Belinda Blinks, considered one of the most adept makers of trout files In the local fishing tackle factory, sent out with a packet of her work a pleasent little note, which read: "If the sportsman who rends this wants a wife and will throw a book to this town he will find a llttlo trout waiting to Jump at the bait." The message fell into the hands of August Bass, of Detroit, who at once made the longest cast on record, nnd after a short time landed Miss Belinda. She did not put up much of a fight, and came in bo easily that no landing net was required. The wedding will take place next month. BABY TOSSED DOWN SAFELY. Thrown From Burning Third Story Of A Tenement. Summit, N. J. (Special). John MacNabb's tenement, on the third floor of a brick building on Summit Avenue, wits burned out. MaeNabb and his wife got out all right, but a fireman found in bed in a room where walls were on fire something which he hastily wrapped all the bed clothes about and tossed out of the window. Policeman Smith, on the sidewalk. saw the bundle coming his way and caught it. The bundle began to howl and Smith, peeling the blankets away, found that inside was a baby. it was the youngest MaeNabb, 14 months old. He wasn't harmed. MR. CORTELYOl" WINS. Court Sustains Ills Right To Reject Bids For Canal Bonds. Washington, D. C. (Special). The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has dismissed the pro ceedings Instituted some months ago by George W . Austin, of New York, to compel Secretary Cortelyou to Is sue to him $3,000,000 worth of Pan ama Canal bonds. The court held that the Secretary had the right to reject any or all bids or to consider the financial conditions of the coun try, and that, if the courts were to enjoin such proceedings, a syndicate might get contrcl of nn entire bond issue and cause financial ruin. Aus tin appealed. THE COLLIN WOOD HORROR. Coroner Burke Declares The Loss Of Life Absolutely Inexcusable. Cleveland (Special). "The loss of the lives of the little children in the Colllnwood School fire was absolute ly Inexcusable," Coroner Burke de clared after making a thorough inves tigation. "The poor little children were caught In a veritable trap and held and crushed until burned to death," he said. "I am not prepared yet to say upon whom the blame should be placed. It is a matter so serious that must take full time to consider. The children should have escaped, .1 -- , .1 J M . unu wuum uuvu uuue ho iinu 11 nut been for the partition built In the hall at the foot of the stairway. This is what cause their death." Held In Paris As Sharks. Paris (By Cable). The Paris police have arrested three Americans who gave their names as Schwob and De Montgomerle, of Pittsburg, and Howard, of Colorado, and described themselves as "guide Interpreters." The men are charged with obtaining large sums of money from American visitors under false pretenses. The prisoners declare the charges baseless. TOE GRAFTERS IRE F00N0 GUITLY Jury at Harrtsimrg Convicts Everyone On Trial. VERDICT IS HEARD IN SILENCE. Verdict Against All Defendants in the Pennsylvania State Cspitol Frauds Case Brought In After Nearly Nine Hours' Deliberation - Only Two Bal lots Were Taken. WASHINGTON PENNSYLVANIA'S SCANDAL. Those Convicted. JOHN H. SANDERSON, chief contractor, who furnished the capltol. WILLIAM P. SNYDER, former auditor general, who approved the contractor's warrants. WILLIAM L. MATHUES, for mer state treasurer, who paid the contractor's bills. J. H. 8HUMAKER, former su perintendent of public grounds and buildings, who receipted for the furnishings. The Charge. Conspiracy to defraud the state of $19,000 In a bill of $50,000 for tables, chairs, sofas and clothes trees. The Plunder. Graft to the amazing sum of $6,000,000 out of a total of $9,000,000 of the state's money used to furnish the new $5,000, 000 state capitol at Harrlsburg. Harrlsburg, Pa. (Special). Con tractor John H. Sanderson, ex-Audl-tor General William P. Snyder, ex State Treasurer William L. Mathues and ex-Superintendent Shumakcr of public grounds and buildings, were found guilty of conspiracy to cheat and defraud the commonwealth of Pennsylvania In the furnishing of the new state capltol. The Jury returned its verdict at 8.50 o'clock P. M., having been out since 12.19. The greater part of the time was devoted to going over the Indictment and the judge's charge. Only two bnllotB were required to reach an agreement. The first bal lot is reported to have been 9 to 3 for conviction. Immediately after the announce ment of the verdict motions were made for new trials for all four de fendants. The court will allow 30 days for the preparation of the pa pers on these motions. Meantime tho defendants will remain out on bail. The case, Involving tables, chairs, sofas and cloth trees furnished by Anderson, on which fraud of $19, 000 waB alleged in a bill of $50,000, has been on trial seven weeks, hav ing been started January 27. Ten other defendants are under indict ments In 38 cases. The Penalty. Only Sanderson and Snyder were in court when the verdict was given and neither would talk. None of the counsel for the deefndants would say anything about the rase. The state's attorneys when questioned Bald that they were pleaBed at the result of the hard work. The maximum penalty for each defendant in this case Is two years' Imprisonment and $1,000 fine. The verdict was received in silence, and when announced Judge Kunkle thanked the jury for Its patience and care given. When the Jury retired all other caseB In which the Bame defendants figure were continued until March 23, the day upon which the next trial will begin. It was announced that the next case to be tried was one Involving an alleged fraud of $17,789.70 In bills for metallic furniture. In this action, which Is a charge of con spiracy, Congressman H. Burd Cas sel, Architect J. M. Huston and Sny der, Mathues and Shumaker are nam ed as defendants, with Frank Irvine, a traveling auditor, who made tho measurements of the metal casing. The trial will be followed by a false pretense case Involving Charles G. Wetter, the partner of George F. Payne, the builder of the capltol, sometime in April, according to pres ent plans. JAPAN OUR FRIEND. Father And Hon Drowned. Stratford, Ot (Special). By the overturning of a rowboat during a sudden squall Peter and Andrew Lae roix, father and son, aged 50 and 10, respectively, and Henry W. Ellison, all of Bridgeport, were drowned. Young Girl Kills HsMsJf, Trenton, N. J. (8peciali.--Margaret Burton, aged 16 years, shot and killed herself at ber home. The girl bad become despondent over the care of her mother, who had been serious ly ill for sometime. Senators Bacon and Tillman, dur ing addresses in the Senate, intimat ed that President Roosevelt was dic tating what laws Congress shall pass. Representative Wlllett attacked the President on the floor of the House as a "despot." The Navy Department sent a con gratulatory telegram to Admiral Evans on the termination of the cruise In exact accordance with the itinerary. Dr. Hugh Dickey, who has been in charge of the trachoma hospital at Hulltax, N. S., has resigned by re quest coincident with an investiga tion of charges of conspiracy to de fraud Immigrants' from England. The secretary of Speaker Cannon states that John Sharp Williams Is responsible lor placing Richard P. Hobson on the Naval Committee. Mujorlty and minority reports on the Brownsville affair were submitted to the Senate and I letter from the President permitting the re-enllBt-nient of the discharged e Idlsrg, President Roosevelt i..atructed Herbort Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, to inquire into the methods of making stock transactions on the various boards of trade and stock exchanges. Commander Key continued his tes timony before, the Senate committee investigating charges of structural defects In the big ships of the United States Navy. Senator Clarke, of Arkansas, op posed both the Aldricb and the Bailey Currency Bills. The vessels to compose tho new At lantic fleet are rapidly approaching completion DOOBLE TRAGEDY IN GIRLS' SCHOOL Principal Kills Her Chum and Herself. Boston (Special).. Suffering from melancholia, due to overwork, Miss Sarah Charhberlln Weed, of Pl.ila- delphla, shot and killed Miss Eliza beth Bailey Hardee, of Savannah, Ga., and then committed suicide at the Laurens School, a fashionable hoarding school for girls. The Lau rens School was established last fall by Miss Hardee and Miss Weed. Both were graduates of Wellcsley College, -end Intimate friends. On October 1, the day the school open ed, Miss Weed broke down as a result of overwork, and was t m mltted to a sanitarium In Nev. . n, to be treated for nervous pro. ra tion. For a while Miss Weed was con fined at Dr. Norton's sanltarlur.-. at Norwood, but she escaped Lorn there, and was transferred to Dr. Dutton's home for convalescents at West Newton. From there she es caped and came directly to Bob! on. presenting herself nt the sc.ool building at 107 Audubon road be tween 9 and 10 o'clock P. M. Miss Hardee greeted her, and feel ing It Impossible to return her part ner to the sanitarium at so late an hour of the night, made arrange ments to keep her at the school building. Accordingly, the house keeper put Miss Weed to bed In a room on the fourth door. The sick woman slept until about 3 A. M.i when she wus heard moving about in her room by MIbs Hardee, who occupied a room on the front of the third floor. The latter sought Miss Weed and brought her down to the third-floor room and took her Into bed with her. There the couple remained until 6.15 o'clock A. M., when the housekeeper called at the room, owakened Miss Hardee and Miss Weed, and told them that they were to have an early breakfast so that Miss Weed might return to tho Newton institution on the 7.35 train. Then the housekeeper started down stairs and she had not reached the street floor before she heard the two fatal shots. She rushed buck to the room, but both women were lying practically lifeless. Miss Hardee was barely breathing with a bullet wound at the base of the brain, and Miss Weed was already dead from n well- directed shot nt the right temple. The housekeeper hastened to sum mon Dr. Joslyn, but both women had breathed their last when he arrived. CARRIERS WIN AT LAST. Declaration Of Ambassador Toka liira Is Cheered. New York (Special). With declar ations that there are now between the United States and Japan no ques tions of any magnitude likely to re main unsettled much longer, and that any questions arising in the future will be brought to satisfactory con clusions by the spirit of friendship existing between the two countries, Baron Kogoro Tukahira, Japanese ambassador, called forth prolonged cheers at the banquet at the Hotel Ast or tendered In his honor by the Japan 8oclety of New York. The Japanese Ambassador was speaking of the recent agitation re garding the Japanese immigration question, and his wordB, spoken be fore the society, formed to promote friendly relations between the two countries, were taken as a prophecy of continued peace In the Pacific. Last Of Dreyfus Cuse. Paris (By Cable). The last act of justice in tbe famous Dreyfus case was performed when the Chamber of Deputies passed a bill restoring Joseph Relnacb, the historian of the case, to his rank in the territorial army. The bill was 'passed, however, only after the Government bad been defeated. Relnach's name was sun- pressed from the measure, which was made general to cover all officers punished. Seven Railroads Sued. Scranton, Pa. (Special). United States District Attorney Witmer, of the middle district of Pennsylvania, entered proceedings here against the Central Railroad of New Jersey, Pennsylvania Railroad, Buffalo and gusquehanua Railroad, Williumsport and North Branch Railroad. Phila delphia and Reading Railway, New York Central Railroad and the Eaglesmere Railroad for violations of the Safety Appliance lew. in all 23 violations are specified. Salaries Raised To $1,200. Despite Committee Opposition. Washington, D. C. (Special). De termined and persistent assaults on the Postofflce Appropriation Bill In the House of Representatives result ed In tho modification of that meas ure In many Important particulars, despite the protest of Chairman Over- street and his committee. The letter carriers finally won their long fight for $1,200 salaries when an amend ment by Mr. Goebel, of Ohio, grant ing the same was adopted. The House also allowed an additional $2 5,000 for clerks In third-class of fices where the salaries of the post masters range from $1,000 to $1,200, nnd $15,000 additional for contract stations. The prohibitionists also had their innings when, through an amendment by Mr. Houston (Tenn.), there was incorporated in the bill a provision prohibiting the transmission through the mails of Intoxicating liquors, which later modified so us to Include cocaine and Its derivatives. Alto gether the appropriations carried by the bill were decreased to the extent of $1,225,000. An amendment by Mr. Kustermann (Wis.) prohibiting the UBe In post- ofilces of any cancelling machines ex cept those acquired by purchase aroused a lively debate as to the rights of patentees. There was a great diversity of opinion on the sub ject. The amendment finally waB ruled out on a point of order that it changed existing law which express ly appropriated for the rental of such machines. FINANCIAL R. H. Thomas has been nominated for president and F. W. Gilley for treasurer of tho New York Stock Exchange. William I. Shaffer -was appointed special counsel for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company yesterday in the State of Pennsylvania. Mill owners of Fall River, Mass., have decided that they cunnot sign the agreement of other cotton manu facturers calling for a curtailment for three months. Out of a total of 87,500 freight cars on the Baltimore & Ohio sys tem, 19,200 are Idle, the largest num ber out of service at one time In the history of the company. The recommendation of the Presi dent to investigate the speculative buying and selling In the stock ex changes throughout the country was not considered a market factor In any wsy. Canadian textile companies report an even larger amount of business than at the same period last year. The Increase at what Is considered a dull time of the year was unex pected. United States Steel seems to be In demand sb tho result of tbe fav orable reports from the steel trade. The stockholders' committee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company meets on Monday to nominate four directors. It Is expected that the present incumbents will be named. There has been a steady resump tion of the mills of the United States Steel Corporation during the past few weeks. On Monday It Is reported ton mills at the Sharon plant will re sume, and the remaining ten will start on the following Monday. Some small yearly contracts for bituminous coal have been renewed at the same figures as lust year. There is some demand for coal on the part of persons who desire to avoid trouble in case of a bitumin ous strike, and tho railroads are stocking up for tbe same reason. An optimistic opinion is attributed to President Delano, of the Wabash, who Is quoted as follows: "March will make better showing than that of a year ago. This Is due, however. In large measure to big coal move ment and Is at tbe expense of the April t raffle to some extent. General business shows improvement" FLEET ARRIVES FOOR DMS IREKO OF TIME Successful Cruise of 13,000 Miles is Completed. IN BETTER SHAPE THAN AT START. Navy Department Officials Highly Gratifled Ovsr Lstest Achievement of the American Navy A Remark able Sailing Record for Fleet of Battleship?. BEATS THE WORLD. The cruise of the "American Battle Fleet" from Hampton Roads to Magdnlena Bay is the greatest sailing record made by any navy. The fleet left Hampton Row" i December 16, arrived at Trinidad December 24, at Rio Janeiro Jan uary 12, passed Into the Strait of Magellan January 31, at Valpar aiso February 14, Callao Febru ary 20. The total cruise of 13,000 miles waB covered In about 6 sailing days. It being 87 da? , since the fleet left Hampt .i Roads. The 3,200-mile run from Cal lao, Peru, to Magdalena Bay took 11 days nnd 20 hours, 2 days ahead of the scheduled time to that point. Admiral Evans reports the 16 battleships In better condition than when they left Hampton Roads and ready for any service at one day'B notice. The target practice In Magda lena Bay will take up nearly a month. The fleet will stop at Coronado Beach and other points on the California Coast, entering the Golden Gate about May 5. Washington, D. C. (Special). The Navy Department received a message from Rear Admiral Evans announc ing the battleship fleet bad ar rived off Magdalena Bay. Admiral Evans states the the trip from Cal lao was made In 11 days and 20 bourn, two days ahead of the sched ule. The Admiral reports that the fleet is In better condition than when it left Hampton RoadB and that it Is ready for any service on one day's notice. Admiral Evans announces that target practice will be begun as soon as ranges can be established. The news of the arrival of the fleet in such good condition at Magdalena Bay was received with great satis faction at the department. The run from Callao was one of the longest of the legs, being over 3,000 mileB. The department only announced the Itiuerary as far as Magdalena Bay, for It was Intended that the fleet should remain there until the target practice had finished. A few days ago, the itinerary for the trip from Magdalena Bay to San Francisco waB announced. It con templated five stops the first at San Diego (Coronado Beach), Santa Bar bara, San Pedro, Santa Cruz and San Francisco. It Is expected that the fleet will remain at Magdalena Bay engaged In target practice for at least a month, and that It will take the ships three weeks longer to go up the coast of California and make the stops named, and it 'is not expected that they will reach San Francisco before the first week In May. Secretary Metcalf, who Is going to San Francisco to welcome the fleet, will leave Washington about April 25 and reach the Coast a few days before the fleet arrives at the Golden Gate. The department Is perfectly satisfied with the cruise and declares that as a practice cruise It has come up to expectations and has afforded opportunities for drills, evolutions and other naval tactics, and for care ful and exacting seamanship in wa ters of which many American naval men are comparatively new. The trip has been made without accident to any of the vessels. The naval officials declare that there is genuine cause for congratulations over the manner in which the fleet has completed its voyage. PRIEST'S SLAYER TO HANG. No Evidence To Connect Alia With The Anarchists. Denver, Col. Special). Giuseppe Alia, who shot and killed Father Leo Heinrichs in St. Elizabeth's Church In this city February 23, was found guilty of murder in the first degree. Hanging wus the penalty fixed by the jury. In the argument just before the jury took the case Mr. Wlddlcombe said that the only possible explana tion of the murder is that the man Is an anarchist or is Insane. There was absolutely no evidence that tho man Is an anarchist, and the fact that he practically was in a starving con dition would Indicate that he was not a member of any society. Other wise, he would have had enough to eat at least. District Attorney G. A. Stldger in bis closing argument asked: "When everything in the life of the prisoner shows that this man is sane, is an American Jury to find him insane?" He said that If not an alienist had testified to tbe prison er's sanity the Jury could find no evi dence ot Insanity In Alia, unless it adopted the theory of Dr. Tosti, that every murderer Is insane. 700 Prisoners Mutiny. Pontlac, 111. (Special). A desper ate rush of 700 mutinous convicts for the wall which stands between them and liberty, occured at the State Reformatory. The guurdB put up a stubborn fight and the ringlead ers, all Chicago crlminHlB, were herd ed into the top gallery. There, on a narrow platform 40 feet from tho main floor, they fought until finally quelled. Half a dozen guards and as many prisoners were Injured. Ex-Mayor SchiniU Freed. San Francisco (Special). Judge Dunne made an order discharging former Mayor Schmltz on the extor tion Indictment. Judge Dunne, In discharging Schmltz, directed that the case be submitted to another Jury. Schmltz has been In Jail nine months. Big School Destroyed. Toledo, Ohio (Special) The school building at Napoleon, Ohio, the largest of tho kind in tbe State, was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $110,000. No on was Injured. MOTHERS ARE THE J1EST CITIZENS Roosevelt Puts Them Above Civil War Veterans. Wsshlngton, D. C. (Special). The White House was the scene of the formal opening of the First Interna tional Congress on the Welfare of the Child, which Is being held under the auspices of the National Mothers' Congress. The 200 delegates, representing all the states and territories and a dozen or more of the loading countries of the world, were received at the White House at 2.30 o'clock P. M., when President Roosevelt delivered an address to them, In which he declar ed that he placed the society ahead of the Civil War veterans, because, he said, In the final analysis, It il the mother only who Is a better citi zen that the soldier who lights for his .'ountry. The President said. In part: "I receive many societies here In the White House, many organizations of good men and women, striving to do all that in them lies for the better ment of our social and civic condi tion, but there Is no other society which I am quite as glad to receive as this. This Is the one body that I put even ahead of the veterans of the Civil War, because when all is said it is the mother, and the mother only, who Is a better citizen even than the soldier who fights for his country. "The successful mother, the mother who does her part In rearing and training aright the boys and girls who are to be the men and women of the next generation, is of greater use to the community and occupies, If she only would realize It. a more honorable, as well as a more Import ant position, thnn any successful man In it. The Mother! Reward. "Nothing In this life that is really worth having comes save at the cost of effort. No life of self-indulgence, of mere vapid pleasure can possibly, even in the one point of pleasure itself, yield so ample a reward os comes to the mother at the cost ol self-denial, of effort of suffering in childbirth, of the long, slow, pa-tlence-trylng work of bringing up the children aright. "No scheme of educntion. no 9urla) attitude, can be right unless it is based fundamentally upon the recog nition of seeing that the girl is train ed to understand the supreme dig nity, tbe supreme usefulness, oi motherhood. Unless the average woman Is a good wife and good moth er, unless Blie bears a sufficient num ber of children, so that the race shall Increase and not decrease, unless she brings up these children sound In soul and mind and body, unless this Is true of tho average woman, no brilliancy of genius, no material pros perity, no triumphs of science and industry, will avail to save the race from ruin and death. "The mother is the one supreme as set of national life; she is more Im portant by far than the successful statesman or business man or artist or scientist. "I abhor and condemn the man wtio Is brutal, 'hougbtless, careleBS, sel fish, with wimen. and especially with the women of his own household." Was In Famous Fight. Atchison, Kan. (Special). Fred erick W. Foster, machinist and gun ner on the Confederate cruiser Ala bama during the Civil War, and ono of 40 men who escaped when that vessel was sunk by the United States cruiser Kearsarge, died here. Fos ter kept his connection with the Ala bama's career u secret until less than a year ago. Roosevelt May Visit England. London (By Cable). A persistent rumor that President and Mrs. Roosovolt will visit England next year is current in American circles here.. It Is said that he will stay six months In Loudon with his family and will study the organization ot the navy and the management of the dock yards. Federal Judge (Inrk Read. Knoxville, Tenn. (Special). Judge C. D. Clark, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Cleve land in 1S95 as judge ot the Eastern and Middle districts of Tennessee, Is dead at Chattanooga, aged 61. He had been in Ashevllle, N. C, for sometime, for his health-, and only Saturday was removed to Chatta nooga. He was a native of Tennessee. British Death Duties. London (By Cable). The injus tice of the British death duties wus illustrated. Canon Barker received 165,000 on the doath of a sister, who came Into possession at i,t,n money as legatee of her husband, who died four days before she did. Tho government, therefore, takes a double duty of 27,700, or 14 per cent, of the estate. 100 Per Cent. In 12 Years. New York (Special). The direc tors of the Virginia-Carolina Chem ical Company declared the regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent., payable April 16 to stockholders of record on March 31. This Is the fiftieth consecutive quarterly dividend the company has declared, which means that in the last 12 years the company has paid 100 per cent. Millionaire Dies In Hospital. Los Angeles, Cal. (Special). Ed ward L. Day, millionaire head of a breakfast food manufacturing com pany at Cleveland, O., died at the Good Samurllan Hospital of uraemlc poisoning. Mr. Day, with his wife, had been for sometime u guest at a hotel. Japan 1m Greatly Pleased. Toklo (By Cable). The final re ply from Washington regarding tho immigration question has greatly pleased Japan. Six Chinamen Burned to Deuth. MarysvUle, Cal. (Special). Six Chinese dead, two others Injured, and one building partly destroyed, was the result of u fire in Chinatown, at First and Oak Streets, In this city. TJie fire is believed to have been the work of an incendiary. Hague Treaties Ratified. Washington, D. C. (Special). 'lue Benae ratified and made public hi o the 13 treaties negotiated at the in ternational conference at The Hague. Tbe conventions adopted aro those, to which no opposition has been made.
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