THE NEWS. Domestic II. II. Purcell, general a prut of the American Refrigerator Transit Company, at St. Louis, dropped dead In his office Immediately after say ing he never felt better In his life. Mayor Oaynor has named a com mittee of ISO prominent citizens to welcome Theodore Roosevelt to New York. Ono hundred passenger trains, de tained as a result of floods in the North went, passed through Portland, Ore. Peter Karaklanls, a Greek, under arrest In St. Joseph, Mo., has con fessed to the murder of a priest. Mrs. Ava Willing Astor was grant ed a final decree of divorce from Col. John Jacob Astor. Enrico Caruso, the tenor, has re ceived a Black Hand demand for $15,000 or his life. Sidney Rosenfeld, the playwright, took the poor debtor's oath. The American Sugar Refining Company was presented, by the Fed eral Grand Jury In New York for contempt of court In failing to pro duce certain books and papers In response to subpoena. John D. Rockefeller. Jr., It was announced, will assume complete rharge of the new foundation created by his father. He has already re tired from the directorate of the Standard Oil Company. President Taft, in a letter to United States Marshall Davis, at Cleveland, explained how Wade H. Kills was ap pointed chairman of the Ohio Repub lican Executive Committee. Dr. George A. Fritch was found FUilty of manslaughter at Detroit, Mich., in connection with the death last summer of Maybelle Mlllman, of Ann Arbor. The Aero Club of St. Louis wants an aviation meet for its clt?. Presi dent Bishop, of the Aero Club of America, has been asked to sanction the project. Twenty-three miners were killed and eight seriously Injured by the explosion of a powder magazine In a gold mine on Douglas Inland, Alaska. Gordon Davis, a negro, who was a slave of Jefferson Davis, died at Hoerne. T'xas. He l".ft the Davis family at the outbreak of the Civil War, and was made a corporal In the Union Army. The prlee of hogs jumped to $10.10 when a carload was bought in Chi cago at this figure by an Eastern shipper. Henry .1. Furlong, a former Brook lyn police magistrate, vvus found guilty of accepting a bribe. Henry Walters, of Baltimore, has succeeded John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ba a director of the United States Steel Corporation. Steel railroad ears prevented loss of life in a collision on the Hudson and Manhattan Railway of New York. Three lives were lost In a fire that destroyed the Y. M. C. A. Building at Rotterdam Junction, New York. Henry Burgess, a New York fire men, was killed by falling 10 stories down an elevator shaft. Edward W. Very, a former naval officer and ordnance expert, died In New York. The cold storage of poultry is being Investigated by a grand jury of New York. The United States battleship South Carolina was placed In commission. The leaders of the Nicaragua!) rev olutionists are now reported to be ready to listen to any proposals of American Intervention which will guarantee to them the rights de manded. Crown Prince Constantino of Greece Is in Rome, for a conference with King Victor Emanuel and to solicit Italy's Influence in the solu tion of the Cretan question. Premier Asouith Informed thf British House of Commons that the financial budget would be brought tip soon as the resolutions regarding the House of Lords power to ctc were past. In the Belgian Parllmrnf the So cialist leuder charged that King Leo. pold had deceived his minister and bequeathed his immense fortune tc Illegal companies. The British Army estimates fot 1910-11 show a total for mainten ance of $138,N00,0'i0. This is nn Increase over the estimates of thf preceding year of $ 1 .6:' i.000. According to advices from Blue fields. General Chamorro, the revo lutionary leader. Is reported to ha lost 800 men In the recent battle. Count Goetz von Seckendorff. former court niershal, Jlcd In Berlin aged G8 years. He officiated as grand master of the court to the late dow srer Empress Frederick. Premier Canalejas Intend to pro mulgate a decree dissolving the Span ish Cortes next Saturday and appeal to the country. A French column rurprised nn;' routed in Morocco n band of ',iux tribesmen who reeei.tly murdered a French officer. The French government ha tc repted Secretary Knox's proposal fo; a permanent International court in principle. A strike by the crews h.is tied iij the interlslard vessels In the Philip pines. Emperor WilMam heard the sug gestion of Vladimir Koeppen t ineterologist. that air navigation b regulated by the government. Count Hans Von S'bwrrln-foewltz a member of the Conservative party, was elected speaker of the German Ktchstag, succeeding Count Udo Von Stolberg-Wernigerode, v.-ho died, on February 19 King Peter, of fiervia. will visit the Czar th!s spring, which will be his first tereptlon by a foreign sov ereign since bis accession to the throne. Cer.err-I Wood'or.l, president of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commit too present1 1 to President Kalllem. of France the commission's gold medal. - In the new Finnish 1!rt which opened at Hclilrip'ors, the Socialist! with their Agrarianallles, have a majority of three. rtnnrfj h,vA ilAn- n..K l - ... -'V' '- MUU-7 , U VaiJIBfcV In Holland, hundreds of workers raving to fie from Inundated fac tories. Msrsbil Hermes For-see ss lii1 Pfi'Jcot of EratU over Dr., Hoy UarUtx SIXTY MEN IN TOMB OF SNOW Caught in An Avalanche on the Canadian Pacific Rescuers Work in Danger of Another Slide. Bodies Of Some Of The Victims Probably Swept Info Tho Canyon, Thero To Lie Until Summer Sun Meltg Tho Frozen Mass The Great Avanlanche Curries Down Telegraph Poles and Wires Re lief Train Sent To Scene May Take Two Days To Clear Tracks. Vancouver, B. C. (Special). Sixty-two men who were engaged In clearing the Canadian Pacific track In Rogers Pass at the summit or the Selkirk Range were entombed by an avalanche and all are probably dead. The men were working in clearing away a small slide that had come down early in the evening. They were working a rotary engine over it when an immense mass came down and carried some of thera to their death in the canyon below, All passenger trains on the line are safe, though It will probably be a dny or two before they are able to pass the place when the slide oc curred. Tho accident occurred near a snowshed one mile west of Rogers Pas and at the actual summit of the Selklrks. As soon as the news reached Rev elstoke, a relict train conveying physicians and nurses' and over 200 railway men and other citizens start ed to Rogers Pass. Calgary made an equally prompt response. It also sent a special re lief train with 125 workmen, as well as nurses and doctor. Railway officials expect that at least 4 8 hours will elapse before the line can be cleared. The work is attended with great danger, as an other slide may descend at any mo ment. Little hope Is entertained that any of the men in the pathway of the avalanche escaped alive. The bodies of many of the victims were proba bly swept into the canyon and may not be recovered until summer suns melts the snow. Six hundred men are now digging out the track from under the enow and debris. A report from the scene of the disaster says the bodies of only five men have been recovered. The work of recovering the dead and opening the track Is greatly Impeded by a bllzzarJ now raging In the PaBs. VOTES FOR POSTAL SAVINGS BANK BILL Senate, 50 To 22, Passes the Bill Providing for New System The Insurgents Get Into Line. Adoption Of An Amendment Forbid ding Investment In Two Per Cent. Bonds Oivcs Them Opportunity To Vot With Thoir Party The House Likely To Eliminate It Provis ions Of The Measure As It Finally Went . Through. Washington, D. C. (Special). The Postal Savings Bank bill passed the Senate by a vote of 0 to 22 along almost strict party lines. Every Democrat who voted, with the single exception of Mr. Chamberlain, of Oregon, was recorded against the measure upon 1U final passage. Every Republican present voted for it. Tho nnanamlty of this vote, how ever, was based upon changes made In the bill in order to satisfy the "progressives" from the West. The thing which saved the day was the presentation of an amendment by Senator Borah, of Idaho, a "progres sive," providing that when the money Is withdrawn from the banks for use in supporting the credit In time of war or other national exigency and Invested in Government bonds, It shall not be Invested in any Govern, ment bond bearing interest at less than 2V per cent. Interest. The adoption of this amendment, as an afterthought to the compro mise amendment whloh the Presi dent demanded in order to make the bill constitutional, Btrlkes a blow at the aims of Senator Aldrich, to link irty-fiveTodies DUB DOT Of WRECK Survivors tell of Some Harrow ing Experiences. SEVERED HAND OF WOMAN FOUND. Thirty-Five Bodies Huve Been Re covered l ifty.Three Are Missing, WtkOKe Names Are Known, Be sides A Number Of Laborers All In Wreckuge Are Believed To Be Dead. the proposed postal savings bank leg islation up to the United States Treasury in such a way as to forward the idea of the proposed central bank of Issue. But for the Borah amend ment It would have been possible to withdraw the postal funds from the banks In time of war or financial panic and invest them In Borne $700. 000,000 worth of Government 2 per cent, bond now held by bankers. As It goes to the House, the bill authorizes the various money-order postoffiecs to accept sums of one dol lar or more from depositors, and to deposit these sums In the local banks, where the money Is to remain unless withdrawn by the President in case of war or other exigency. In case of this withdrawal the funds are to be invested In Government securities, but with the proviso that such se curities shall not draw less than 2V per cent. Interest. The control of the funds Is Invested In a board of trustees composed of the Postmaster. General, the Secretary of the Treas ury and Attorney-General. The ag gregate balance allowed to any de positor Is $r.00. and no person is permitted to deposit more than $100 In any one month. The Government Is required to pay 2 per cent, inter est and must exact not less than 2M per cent, from the banks, the extra quarter of 1 per cent, being required for the payment of expenses and losses. It Is estimated that such a law would bring much money out of hid ing and result in a fund ranging all the way from five hundred million to one billion dollars. Everett, Wash. (Special). It is now almost certain that the death toll in the avalanche that carried away the two Great Northern trains and seven steam and electric loco motives at Wellington will total more than 10'J. Eighty-six names are now on the list of dead or missing passengers, railroad and postal employes. State ments of the number of laborers fighting the snow who were sleep ing on the Ill-fated trains vary from lid to 30. All the dead were residents of the Norlhwct of Hie Injured, only Kev. Bishop W ingot, of Chicago, was from Hit- Kaht. Thirty-five bodies have been re covered. Fifty-three are missing, whose name are known, besides a number of laborers. All in the wreckage me believed to be dead. The first news direct from the scene of the wreck was received at midnight, when Dr. Cox, one of the Great Northern physicians, who left on the first relief train, returned from Wellington, accompanied by three of tho survivors Ray Forsyth, R. M. Lavelle and Fireman S. A. Bates. Dr. Cox said that none of the In jured was in a critical condition. Most of them were only slightly hurt. When he left Wellington 16 were In the temporary hospital. Forsyth and Bates estimated that not more than 20 of the 110 per sons who were carried into the can yon by the avalanche escaped death or injury. Eleven passenger cars, three locomotives, four electric mo tors, one rotary snowplow, the rotary shed and the sandhouse were swept away by the slide. A member of the first relief train returned to Everett and said that when he reached the scene all the cars were burled. Much of the wreckage was covered by 40 feet of snow and all that could be seen was part of an electric motor, two loco motives and the wreckage -pf the ro tary snowplow. All that could be seen of the coaches was a steel pipe sticking out of the snow, where a Pullman car was twisted around a stump, and a curtain that lay on top. Ray Forsyth, on of the injured passengers, was in a car in which there were five women and Beven children. Three women and two children escaped, but the others per ished. In telling of the experience For syth said that It seemed as If the car was lifted bodlry from the tracks and was held poised in midair. Sud denly It toppled over the edge and rolled down the embankment. The air was filled with the shrieks of the injured. A fearful storm was raging, a high wind was blowing, and there was a spectacular electrical display. The first men to extricate them selves from the wreckage set to work rescuing those leas fortunate. They had no lights and worked by tho flare of the lightning, which was al most Incessant. The severed hand of a woman was found. On a finger was a ring bear ing initials, which led the workers to believe that It belonged to Miss Katharine O'Neill, of Spokane. Oth er portions of bodies were also found. Fireman S. A. Rates was burled under snow for six hours. Survivors heard his shouts and dug him out before the first rescuers arrived. A Junior league of the New York State Association Oppose to Woman Suffrage has been formed at Albany with Mrs N. H. Henry as president. The membership is said to have reached already In the neighborhood of 100 and to Include young women of every social grade In Albany. New Plan To FlcvaCe Drama. Chicago (Special). The Drama League, which Is to have for Its pur pose the creation of an enlighten ed play.golnif sentiment throughout the I'nlted States, will have its birth in tbu First Congregational Church lit KvaiiHton, a suburb, Tuesday, March Ti At the meeting, it Is ex pected, delegates will assemble from n me 1C5 clubs and women's organ-l.-jtioiH throughout the Central West to dicua th best way to under take the work. Tobacco Companies Merged, Prnsacoln. Fia. Serlal). Tho n-erger of all the large Sumatra to bacco companies In Florida hat been finally effected, according to Infor mation from Qulnry, the heart of the Sumatra tobacco Industry. A cor porate, with a capital stock of $7,000,000, to be known as the American Sumatra Tobacco Com pany, has horn formed to take over the absorbed plant. The active nmtiasruirtit of the corporation will be in ttia bands of F. Arglinbau. sBc ijeisry and treasurer, with beadquar i. rs In New York. i Coffee SO Years Old. New York (Special). Commander Robert E. Peary was the guest of honor at the annual dinner --of the Canadian Camp and Co-operating Sportsmen's Clubs of the United States and Canada, given at the Ho tel Astor. About 450 guests were present. The menu consisted of bear steak, hard tack from Peary's steam er "Roosevelt" and coffee taken from tho cache established by Lieutenant Greely at Fort Conger, Mn 1881. Commander Peary was presented with a bronzo wreath. Express Car Looted, Rochestor, N. Y. (Special). When train No. 37 on the New York Central reached Rochester it was dis covered that one of the 10 Ameri can Express cars, a through car, had h tn looted. Nearly all of the 1,000 packages had been broken open and their contents scattered. Just how much the robbers got will not be known until an inventory is taken at Buffalo. It Is the belief of tho express company .crucial that tho robbery was tho work of gang that la supposed to have boarded the train at L'tUa, getting off at Syracuse. WANT COMMANDER ) PEARY'S PROOFS IN FULL Otherwise Committee Will Pig eon hole All Bills. HIS RECORDS ARE NOT SUBMITTED. Sub-Committee Of House Will Not Pass On Measure Rewarding Ex plorer Unless It Is Allowed To Make Proofs Public Peary Is Op posed To This Plan, But Is Will ing To Submit Them In Confidence Washington, t. C. (Special). Proofs of Commander Peary's dis covery of the North Pole caused a row In tho subcommittee of the House Committee on Naval Affairs. Two members of the National Geo graphic Society appeared before the committee with copies of Mr. Peary's proofs to urge the granting; of suitable reward by Congress to the noted explorer, but the committee declined to receive them in confidence with the ultimate result that the committee has made it known that unless the Peary nroofs are forth coming to the full satisfaction of the committee, every bill Introduced for the purpose of rewarding the North Tole discoverer will be pigeon holed. Three members of the committee were in favor of receiving the Peary proofs without making them public. Representative Macon hotly objected and after declaring his position stalked angrily from the room. "I am against any legislation In the dark," Mr. Macon sharply told the committee. "Furthermore, if this committee decides in favor of Peary without inspecting the full rec ords and making them public, I will expose the whole business on the floor of the House or In a statement to the press. If we reward Mr. Peary the American people have a right to know what we are rewarding him for." Would Not Submit Proofs. Professor Gannett, of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and one of the members of the National Geographic Society, which accepted Peary's proofs, told the committee that Mr. Peary would not let the committee have the proofs for public purposes because he wanted them for use in newspaper and magazine articles. The Professor had with him a copy of the proofs, but he declined to sub mit them. He told the committee that he had not the slightest doubt but that Peary discovered the pole, and never had any, even before he saw the proofs. He submitted to lengthy questioning and answered many Interrogations about the Peary dash to the pole. He told of the tidal observations which Commander Peary had taken and sent back to the department from time to time, which, he said, were of great value. These filled 21 volumes, he said. Professor Gannett told of the sound ings Mr. Peary took In the vicinity of the pole and of the explorer hav gone a distance of 10 miles past the pole In order to make sure that he was at the extreme top of the earth. A sounding was made '140 miles from the pole at a depth of 1,240 fathoms. Another was taken within five miles of the pole, but Peary lost the heavy lead and a couple of pick heads which they had let down to furnish the necessary weight to make the soundings. Prof. Gannett said the committee had examined Mr. Peary's instru ments. . Asked what they could tell from an examination of such instru ments, the witness said nothing could be told from them. They only show ed, he said, that Mr. Peary had the instruments. 1 It was further atate.1. that any scientist who knew his business could remain In Washington and fix up as tronomical observations and instru ment records such as a man might make at the pole. These could not be told from the genuine, it was ac knowledged. CONFESSES WIFE MURDER. Mobile Police Catch New Yorker Wanted For Tenement Crimp. Mobile. Ala. (Special). Julius Venner, alias Alexander Klein, alias Johansen. was positively identified here as August Petersen, who has been hunted on the charge of mur dering his wife, Sophie Johansen, In a West Ninety-eighth Street tene ment house In New York February 7 and concealing the body under the floor of the place. The identification was made by a brother of the murdered woman, who arrived here, accompanied by Police Sergeant Van Waganer, of the New York Police Department. Johansen, or Petersen, as he says his real name is, after the identification broke down and confessed. PREFERS TO 8TAY IX PRISON. Thos. Taylor Declines With Thanks The President's Pardon. Washington, D. C. (Special). Declining to take advantage of the pardon granted to blm by President Taft, Thomas Tayloi. sentenced In mis city to lb years in the Atlanta Penitentiary for the murder of his wife, will remain as one of the "truBtles" of the Institution. Dur ing his long incarceration Taylor studied pharmacy and was assigned to tho custody of the prison phar macy. He Will remain in that cannc. ity. Tliejr Want Farming Taught. Indianapolis (Special). Primari ly to procure the passage of the Dol llver bill now before Congress, and secondarily to obtain agricultural departments in State normal schools throughout the United States, edu cators from 15 Middle West State appointed a committee to work In connection with the National Educa tion Association. The Dolllver bill appropriates $1,000,000 to pay sal aries of instructors in such normal school departments. Three Dead In Feud, Cltronelle, Ark. (Special). Joseph 8tokes, Charles Goldman and David Gortman. farmers, were shot and klllej by Laurence Odom, a cattle man, at the later's home., four miles from this place. After the shooting Odom surrendered to a deputy sheriff at Cltronelle, who, fearing mob vio lence, telephoned Sheriff Drago, at Mobile, for assistance. The Mobile officers arrived at 11 o'clock and no further trouble is feared. Odom says the killing was the result of an old feud. He says all parties were armed. I , "' 8750,000 IN GOLD INVOLVED Head of a Mexican Hank in a Tangle. Accused Of Borrowing Hum From Canadian Dank A Few Days Be fore Ills Own Rank Cloned Also Charged With Breach Of Trust Over Disappearance Of Shares Of Mining Stacks. Mexico City (Special). Abuse of confidence In the handling of 1,500, 000 pesos ($760,000 gold) was form ally charged against George I. Ham, president of tho suspended United States Banking Company, by Man ager S. C. Saunders, of the Bank of Montreal, before Judge Mlramon. At the same time negotiations for a settlement out of court of a claim of Harwood A. Simpson, a mlneown er, who had also charged Ham with breach of trust In connection with the disappearance of certain mining shares, were halted by tho court. As a consequence of these negotia tions Ham was ordered again placed Incommunicado for 10 days. Simpson and Ham and their at torneys were In court. Ham's attor neys were prepared to hand over the money In full settlement of the Simpson claim when the transaction was called to the attention of the court. Judge Mlramon declared that such a settlement would permit the arrest of Simpson for compounding a perjury. It developed that Simp son had once given Ham a power of attorney which contained state ments contradicting testimony recent ly given in tho present case. The court declined to permit the with drawal of Simpson's charge and or dered Ham returned to prison in communicado. The charge brought by Manager Saunders alleged th-at Ham, by re Borttng to misrepresentations, had obtained from the Canadian Institu tion a loan of 1,500,000 pesos a few days before the United States Bank closed Its doors. The money. It was charged, was devoted to other pur poses than those advanced in ap plying for the loan. GIRL A FIRE HF.RO. Rescues .Father Anil Sister, Then Falls Unconscious. New York (Special). While gas, paints and oils were exploding In her burning home, on the ground floor of an East Side tenement. Fan nie Goldman, 12 years olJ. groped her way through the flames and res cued her father, who bad fallen senseless In the blazing .room, and her two-year-old sister. Running back, ehe again dared the blaze and rescued ser little sister. She fell unconscious and on fire as she reached the street. Her mother then dashed into the bunlng place, passed through the flames, and when she came out, carrying a son, her clothing 'was on fire. The father, mother and three children were bad ly burned. , CONVICTED RANKER FIGHTS. ROCKEFELLER GETTING RIO OF SOMEJFHIS SURPLUS Endowment of Many Millions Likely to Ke Made. HE MAY DIVIDE HIS VAST FORTUNE. BUI Introduced In Congress For The Incorporation Of A Foundation To Promote The Well-Being Of The People Of The United States And Its Possessions In Foreign Lands Rivalry Between The Iron Master And The Oil King In Get ting Rid Of Their Swollen For tunes, ' RIVAL CROESUSES. Carnegie's endowments, $162, 000,000. Rockefeller's endowments, $131, 000.000. Carnegie's fortune (estimated), $400,000,000. Rockefeller's fortune (his own estimate), $200,000,000. ROCKEFELLER'S LATEST G1KT. An endowment for a foundation for promoting the welfare of tho people of the United States and its possessions. Objects To Taking $300,000 Estate To Cover Defalcations. Pittsburg (Special),. J. B. F. Rhlnehart, former cashier of the Farmers and Drovers' National Bank, 'of Waynesburg, who Is serving a IB year sentence In the Western Peni tentiary, charged with looting the bank, has begun action to fight the effort of the bank receiver to take his $500,000 estate to cover part of his alleged defalcations. Rhlnehart, in his answer to the equity suit of the receiver, filed, alleges that he was forced to sign an assignment of his property under threats made by former National Bank Examiner John B. Cunningham, who, he Bald, knew of the bank's weakness long before he took official action. "ADD" MARRIAGES BINDING. Court Decides That They Are As . Lcgel As Any Others. Washington, D, C. (Special). Marriages brnneht .ahnnt a a rai of advertisement are binding In the eyes of the law In the opinion of Justice Van Orsdol. of thn Appeals of the District of Columbia. xie uem mai Liyae u. Williamson, who won his wife by correspondence begun through a matrimonial bureau and who married her within two hours of their first meeting, must retain her, there being nothing "that would in law vitiate thn minii.i. contract." Have $34.87 la Your Pocket. Washington TV C (llnwi.h Have you $34.87 in your pocket or in me unK7 ir you nave not, then you are Shy on the tier ranita 1r. culatlon of money In the United States as shown bv the hnnl. nf ih. Treasury Department. The depart ment, in reaching this calculation, estimates the population of the Uni ted mates at KB, 883,000, and an nounces the amount of monev In pe culation on March 1 as $3,134,093,- 2,i(i, which, it equally divided, would icive everv man., woman and efiild In the country $34.87. There la in cir culation today $49,315,244 moro than there was a year ago. Three Dead In Wreck In Fog. Decatur, 111. (Special). Three men were killed, one fatally hurt and seven others severely Injured on the Illinois Central Railroad,- one mile south of Oconee, when- two freight trains collided in a heavy fog. Wright Machine Falls. San Antonio (Bpeclal). After three successful flights Lieut. B. D. Foulols in a Wright aeroplane made a tourtn attempt mat resulted dis astrously. The rudder of the ma chine was wrecked and Lieutenant Foulols had a narrow escape from injury. The machine had just turned the southern end of the parade field at Fort Sam Houston when tho en gine stopped. The aeroplane fell 40 feet. Washington. D. C. (Special). Steps were taken to Incorporate the Rockefeller Foundation in the Dis trict of Columbia. The bill for this purpose was introduced by Senator Galllnger and was referred to the Committee on Judiciary. The pur pose of the foundation is to provide for a general organization to con duct philanthropic work along all lines. It Is understood that the Foundattbn will be endowed largely by John D. Rockefeller and that he takes this means to dispose of , a largo part of his enormous wealth. The incorporators named in the bill are John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, - Jr., Fred T. Gates, Starr J. .Murphy and Charles O. Heydt. These Incorporators are au thorized to select associates, not to I exceed a total of 2 and it is provid - ed that there shall not be at any I time less than five. The Rockefeller Foundation, a'c I cording to the bill. Is organized to j promote the well being and advance I the civilization of the people bf'the I United States and its possessions in foreign lands and for the acquisition i and dissemination of knowledge for the prevention and relief of suffer ing and promotion of any and all of the elements of human knowl edge. -While drawn generally along the lines of the act incorporating the Carnegie Foundation, the Rockefel ler bill goes much farther, since the Carnegie Foundation is designed chiefly to provide for a scientific re tirement and pensioning of super annuated teachers. It was stated by Senator Galllnger that Mr. Rockefeller already had given away $52,000,000 and that he was seeking a method of disposing of his fortune that would benefit mankind. The foundation Is organ ized on lines similar to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. As in the case of the latter institution the Rockefeller Foundation will be used to receive and dispense gifts of money otjier than those obtained from the origi nal endowments, the amount of which has not been fixed. Senator Galllnger said: "I am not authorized to speak for Mr. Rockefeller. But, there is no doubt that Mr. Rockefeller in tends 'to give sway his money on a scale greater than any other living man. I am not acquainted with all of the details of Mr. Rockefeller's plans, but 'It is expected that Wash ington will be made the headquar ters." ' , THE RIVAL CROESUSES. Gold Wreaths Stolen. St. Petersburg (Special). Tho Bourse Gazette says the Imperial mausoleum In the church In the for tress of St. Peter and St. Paul has been rifled in the same manner as was the royal tombs at Roskllde some time ago. More than 20 gold wreaths were stolen. Several of these were gifts from foreign sov ereigns. The. robbers seem to have broken the wreaths up and sold the fragments separately to local Jew elers. As the leaves were cure cold their value was considerable. The of ficials ref use to give any Information. Carnegie And Rockefeller Getting Rid Of Great Sums. New York (Special). Star J. Murphy, one "of the Incorporators named in the Galllnger bill to es tablish the Rockefeller foundation, said that he did not yet know what endowment , tbe foundation would have. "Tho bill introduced at Washing ton," said Mr. Murphy,, "la Intend ed to broaden the scope of Mr. Rockefeller's philanthropies and Is almost Identical In form with tbe act of Congress in 1903 under which the Rockefeller Educational Fund was authorized. The new bill makes it possible for Mr. Rockefeller to go Into any form of philanthropy in tho worlJ, whereas the first endowment was specifically limited. The fact that the incorporators in both Instances are almost Identical simply means that Mr. Rockefeller believes their experiences will be of benefit In fu ture work." ROCKEFELLER'S COMMENT, Augusta. Ga. (Special). John D. Rockefeller, who returned to the city from New York at 3 o'clock, was shown the dispatch regarding the bill Introduced by Senator Galllnger. He smiled and Bald: : - "Just at this time I do not care to have anything to say. I'll wait until I see what they are going to do up there. However, you may rest assured it is not anything that'll do harm to anybody." . .. Carriers Lost lly Onn Vote. Washington, D. C. (8peoal). By the narrow margin of 63 to 64 Jhe House voted down an amendment to tbe Postofnce Appropriation bill offered by Representative Goebcl, of Ohio, providing for tbe promotion of all letters carriers In large cities to tho $1,200 grade. Fallieres Receives Fairbanks'. , Paris, President Fallieres "re ceived Charles W. Fairbanks at tbe Elyseo Palace. Tho American Am bassador, Mr. Baron, presented the former Vice-President r Taft To Dine In New York. Washington, D. C. (Special). President Taft accepted an Invitation to be present at a banquet to be held in New York on March 21 by the American Peace and Arbitration League, ' Senate Passes Aldrich Bill. Washington, D. C. (Special). Tbe Aldrich bill providing for a commission of Senators. Representa tives and civil appointees to be selected by the President to super vise the business methods of the ex ecutive departments was passed by the Senate. PRESIDENT 0FPANAMA DEAD Jose De Almldia, I., iSlrirkei ' By Heart Disase. Obaldln Did Good Work For The Panama Canal While Senalo He Made An Almost Single-handed Fight For Approval Of The Treaty For The Construction Of The Canal One Of The Richest Me In Panama Owned Big Plaata. tlons. , i ' Panama (Special). Jose Domingo de Obaldia, president of Panama, died from - heart disease at t.ll o'clock P, M. He had been sick os ly since last Friday. President Obaldia was elected on July 12, 1908. He had before aef ed as the chief executive during Uif absence of President A. Amador. HO was formerly minister to the United States. He was born 63 years ago and was a son of former Preaideat Obaldia, of Columbia. During bis Incumbency as acting president ho became very popular and he aasiin ed office in October, 1908, undsr most favorable auspices. In politics he had always been sj conservative, but at the time of his election to the presidency he receiv ed the Bupport of the Liberal as well as that of his own partisans. While a member of the Columbian Senate he became an ardent advo cate of the Hay-Herran treaty for the construction of the Panama Ca nal, and made an almost single handed fight for Its approval by the Senate at . Bogota. He warned the Colombian government of the cost sequences threatened It the treaty was rejected, but his warning was disregarded and the people of Pana ma, resenting the defeat of the treaty, revolted and organized as Independent government. Presides) Marroquln appointed Senor Obaldia governor of the Department of Pana ma, an office which he held until 1D03, when Panama declared her In dependence. President Amador ap pointed him In 1904 minister to the United States from the new republic. In 1906 Senor Obaldia went to Rio de Janeiro as delegate to the Ps Amcrican Congress, and In the same year he was elected as first vteo president of Panama. Senor Obaldia is ono of the rich est men in Panama, and his plan tations are the largest in the re public, t The new president of Panama will be Dr. C. A. Mendoza. Three vlee presidents were elected in 1MI. The first vice president, J. A. Aran ngo. has Blnce died.- Mendoza wast elected second vice president and thus becomes president and will be succeeded as first vice president by J.. M. Lambert. , , ... . Washington. D. C. (Special).' President Taft, on learning of the death of Senor Obaldia, sent the toUl lowing telegram to Senor Dona' Josefa Jevane de Obaldia, his widow:! "Mrs. Taft and I extend to yon. our sincere sympathy in your greac loss. .. The friendship between asr and your good husband, begun number of years ago, has continued down to the present time and the news of his death comes with a great shock. He was a true patriot, an! impartial administrator, a gentleman! of the highest courage, character, and culture, a charming companion) and a oonstant friend. May the' memory of his virtue sustain yon In your deep sorrow." WASHINGTON , BY TELEGRAPH I The charges made by former Spec ial Agent Thomas R. Dawley against Commissioner of Labor Neill were found to be without foundation. A conference was held by' officials of the department to work out plan of action against the Beef Trust. Historic letters were rescued from a heap of rubbish In an attic In the House of Representatives. How severe a punishment Con gress has provided for railroads vio lating the so-called "Twenty-eight Hour Law" by unlawful confinement of live stock in transportation was argued before the Supreme Court. . - The House members of the Joint Printing Committee of Congress tac itly admitted the Jurisdiction iu the Valley Paper Company case and ask ed leave to amend their defense. The Galllnger -Mall Pay Bill, to provide mail steamship lines between tho United States and South America, the Philippines, Japan. China and Australia, was ordered , favorably reported to the Senate. Senator Cummins and Clapp suh niittad, the , minority, report of tie Senate Interstate Commerce , Cont nilttee on tbe administration railroad bill, declaring that It would utterly fall to accomplish its object. The Legislative, Excecutive and Judicial Appropriation bill, carrying $33,bi)5,76o, was reported to the House. Under tho direction of the. chief entomologist a country-wldo cam paign U to be waged . against the housefly. .The President has commuted to five yenrs the sentence of seven years imposed upon Auton Wliitr, at Buf falo, , in 1907, who was charged wlUt photographing two dollar silver certificates.-' President Taft has accepted an la-' vitatlon to address tho Presbyterian General Assembly. The Senate passed a bill authoris ing the expenditure of $10,000,00 for the purchase of land south of Pennsylvania Avenue, In WaaliinKtoa, 1 as sites for public buildings. Secretary Balllngor withdrew front entry 44,932 acre of land in Oregon. Idaho and Utah, thought to contain power possibilities. Tho' Senate passed the bill author ising $30,000,000 worth of certifi es tes of Indebtedness to complete ex isting . Irrigation projects. ' Drunkenness in the District st Columbia will bo treated as a misde meanor If a bill Introduced In the Senate by Senator Galllnger becomes a law. ' A proclamation granting ' to Austria-Hungry the minimum tarlB rates under tho new law was signed, by Secretary Knox. -The President expressed his dee a Interest in tho movement for unlfoms highway lirproveinenta throughout tbe eouutry. , Prof. Willis Moore, chief of th Weather Bureau, told the Hoa Conanclttoe oa Agriculture that he, tr no danger of a forest faialue.
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