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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.