HIGHWAYMEN GET $5,600
THE B. ft 0.
The shipment of Mexican guayuU
rubber from tho Durango cumular
district to the I'nl'ed B'.atea, write
Consul Charles M. Freeman. amounU
ed to value to 14.11)1,930 Id 1909,
n increase of $1.902. 052 over thd
previous year.
Of the average annual world'
urar crop about two-thirds, or 10,
000,000 ton are used In Euron,
the Unltd State and Canada, whll
the other third la absorbed by tho
rret of the world.
A kllowat almost exactly equalf
one and one-third horae power.
Ilriire lUrrii Killed.
Birmingham, Ala. (Special).
Bruce Harris, alleged wife murder
er, formerly of Lynchburg, Vs., waa
hot and Instantly klllod by Detec
tive C. 8. Nation while resitting
arrest here. Harris waa wanted in
connection with the murder of hit
wife in Lynchburg, September 7,
1909.
Chicory, used to mix with coffee,
I the oldest known adulterant of
food. In some cheap restaurant the
ooffe 1 often half chicory.
Panic During, Fir In Poorliouse.
New York (Special). The poor,
houae at Hempstead, U I., waa de
stroyed by fire. One aged Inmate
waa burned to death, though a yonng
woman nurse risked her life to save
him. Five other Inmate were seri
ously burned and taken to the honrt
tal. There waa panlo when the
Maine wore discovered and nearly
forty of tbe poor leaped from the
window of tbe blazing structure.
In the rural districts of England
and Wales the death rate I about
13 per cent, lower than in the urban
district
17 MEN ENTOMBED
BYWALL OF FIRE
Many Miners Are Killed at
Wilkes -Barre.
FAINT HOPE Of RESCUE BEING MADE.
Accident Occur In The No. 5 Shaft
Of The Lehigh And Wllkes-Rarre
Coal Company Explosion Of Oaa
Cause A Heavy Kail Of Rock
Between Seven And Seventeen
Men Are Entombed And There I
Little Hope. For Them.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Special).;
From 7 to 17 men were entombed
In the No. 6 shaft of the Lehigh anl
WIIkes-Barre Coal Company, near
here, a tbe result of a terrific ex
plosion of rock and wall of fire and,
at present, there appears to be little
hope of rescuing them alive.
The explosion occurred shortly
after 9 o'clock in the No. 12 plane,
where a gang of men were putting
together a hoisting engine. The
mine was Idle all week and the men
were taking this opportunity of put
ting tho engine together.
What caused the explosion is not
known, but it Is believed that the
men struck an unknown accumula
tion of gas with their naked lamps.
The explosion was an exceedingly
heavy one and the fall of rock ex
tended for some distance along the
plane.
A fire fighting force was organiz
ed and at 11 o'clock a thousand feet
of hose wng sent down into the mine
in an effort to play water n the
fire. There was a good supply of
water, but the firefighters were han
dicapped by dendly fire damp which
gathered In large quantities.
None of the officials was able to
tell the number of men who were In
the workings when the explosion oc
curred. The officials at midnight reported
that none of tho entombed men had
been reached and that the fire was
spreading. They hoped, however,
that If the men had not been killed
by the explosion that they have been
able to reach a place of safety.
Every effort is being made to
reach the men quickly, but the gen
eral opinion is that the chances of
reaching them are small.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Special). By
3 o'clock A. M.f the bodies of the
seven mineworkers killed by the ex
plosion in the No fi Colliery of the
Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Com
pany were brought to the surface.
Only two men of the gang of nine
escaped. They were James Hayes
and Martin Williams, who a few
minutes before the explosion had
gone for supplies. A few min
utes afterward they heard the
roar of the explosion and felt the
concussion. They rushed to give aid
to their comrades, but were driven
back, weak and faint, by the firedamp,
From the Joint Committee on the
Revision of the Law Senator Hey
burn reported a bill providing for
the codification, revision and amend
ment of the law relating to the Ju
diciary. The Department of Justice ha ac
cepted the offor of Pierre Garven,
prosecutor of Hudson County, N. J.,
to furnish evidence In the Beef Trust
case.
A second attempt to have the
House paa a bill providing for the
purchase or erection of embassy
building in foreign capitals wag de
feated. An appropriation of 1100,000 Is
provided for the establishment of
eubmariae signals along tbe Atlantic
Coaat in a bill passed by the Sen
ate. A Joint resolution was offered in
Congress aiming to Investigate the
death of Lieut, Jame If. Sutton, of
tho Marina Corpa, at Annapolis.
Representative Hobson and Payne
were In a (lit In tbe House over a
bill to provide for tbe construction
of a military road with convict la
bor from the prison at Fort Leaven
worth. '
Paymasters Itohbed in Two
Holdups.
Spring From Woods Into nark Of
Huggy While Paymaster, Were
Driving To Mine Of Dexter Coal
Co, Ileat en Insensible And Left
On Rondsldn Horses, Buggy And
Money Satchel Gone.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). Ed
ward McCann, paymaster, and
Charles N. Pommering, assistant pay
master, respectively, of the Dexter
Coal Company, of Pittsburg, were
attacked by highwaymen at 1 o'clock
while carrying a $4,000 payroll in a
buggy near the company mines at
Brilliant, O. At a late hour both
men were still unconscious at a hos
pital In Steubenvillo, O., while the
murderous highwaymen, who escap
ed with the money, are thought to
be hiding in the hills of West Vir
ginia, across the Ohio River from
the place of tbe holdup.
The Dexter Coal Company, from
Its office in the Frlck Building at
Pittsburg, gave out notice that it
would pay $1,000 reward for the
highwayman, dead or alive, and of
ficers in Eastern Ohio, Northern
West Virginia and Western Pennsyl
vania are busy trying to catch the
highwaymen, who are thought to
have numbered three.
McGann left Pittsburg going to
Wcllsburg, W. Va., by the Panhandle
train, which he left at that point
and crossed the Ohio River in a
boat to be met by Pommering, who
had a buggy In which they were to
carry the money to the Dexter mine,
about two miles back from the riv
er. The pair hnd passed an old school
house far from any other house and
were about to enter a wood when
some men. who had apparently been
hiding behind the schoolhouse, ran
after ihem and, springing lightly
Into the back of the buggy, began
beating them over the head with
heavy hand billies.
McGann says Pommerlng's skull
was evidently crushed at the first
blow, for, with a moan, he sank In
to the bottom of the buggy, and at
that moment McGann was also
knocked to his knees by a blow on
the head. McGann lost conscious
ness for a time and when he came
to he was lying by the side of the
road with Pommering some yards
away, apparently dead.
The horse and buggy and the
money satchel were gone. McGann,
on his hands and knees, crawled to
the Dexter coal mine, almost a mile
distant, and told the workmen who
were waiting for their pay. Pom
mering was hurried to the hospital
at Steubenville, where it was found
that, aside from having a crushed
skull, that one of his eyes had been
knocked out entirely. McGann, too,
is in a serious condition.
TELLER AM) $10,000 GONE.
So Is Woman, And Savannah Police
Connect All Three.
Carload Of liable Given Away.
New Orleans (Special). Wednes
day they gave babies away in New
Orleans. A carload of the little
tot arrived here from New York
foundling and orphan asylums, with
an eager crowd of claimants await
ing their arrival. In addition to
those who bad previously made auo
ceesful claim to a baby, many press
ed about the car In the hope that
there might be some "left over,"
but those who had applied In ad
vance got every baby in the car.
Five Year For Grafter.
San Francisco (Special). The
Court of Appeals upheld the convic
tion of former Supervisor M. W.
Coffey, in connection with the graft
disclosure of the Ruef-Hchmlt ad
ministration. Coffey was outotiuod
to five year In San Quentln.
In one Nebraska tow of 800
population 0 auto were aolj laat
year to farmer near the town and
retired farmer' In the town. , Careui
estimates &f the number of automo
bile owned by farmer la tbe United
Btafle i 7,000.
WILL NOT STRIKE
Roth Sides Make Concessions
and Peace Reigns.
MORE PAY FOR OVER 6,000 EMPLOYES.
After Many Fruitless Conferences
: A Compromise Is Reached, Rut
Detail Will Not Re Given Out
L'ntll A Few Minor Matter Are
Disposed Of Labor Chief De
clare That The Settlement Means
A "Substantial Increase For All
Concerned."
QUESTIONS AT ISSUE.
The dispute directly Involved
over 6,000 men. I
The Increase In wagesc Je-
manded by the trainmen and
conductors was claimed by them I
to be but nine per cent. I
The railroad company claim- I
ed the increase In pay asked was I
fourteen per cent. I
The men asked a change in I
handling double-header freights I
anj the lay-over system of work-
lng men. I
Tho demands of the trainmen
were made In January, 1910. I
Mediation was opened at the I
request of President Daniel Wil- I
lard, of the Baltimore and Ohio, I
on March 3. I
Conferences were opened Frl- I
day, March 4, and continued ev- I
ery day. I
Baltimore (Special). There will
be no strike on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. An agreement on
the wage and service conditions con
troversy, which has been the sub
ject of mediation by Dr. Charles P.
Nelll and Judge Martin A. Knapp,
was reached shortly before midnight.
Both sides signed the new agree
ment, which had been prepared by
Dr. Nelll, and a strike was averted.
It was not announced Just what con
cessions were granted, but the presi
dent of the two organizations in
volved, Messrs. A. B. Garretson, of
the conductors' union, and W. O.
Lee, of the trainmea's organization,
said that, while the agreement did
not grant all that they asked In
their original proposition, yet it gave
important increases to the men.
The official announcement of the
result given out by Messrs. Garrett
on and Lee, of the trainmen'
unions, was as follows:
"An agreement between the officers
of tbe Baltimore and Ohio and the
conductors and trainmen of that line
was reached through tbe efforts of
Charles P. Nelll, commissioner of
labor, and Martin A. Knapp, chair
man of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, after eight days of al
most continuous conferences. The
settlement Includes freight, passen
ger and yard services, and while nM
all that was requested by the men
in the original demands presented,
it means a substantial Increase to all
concerned.
Thousands of men on the Balti
more and Ohio can be thankful that
through the spirit of fairness shown
on the part of the company and the
committee, aided by the patient ef
forts and good Judgment of Com
missioner Neill and Chairman
Knapp, has been avoided a serious
Btrlke. not only on this railroad, but
on others in the territory."
PRIZE FOR REST 40-CENT DINNER
20,000 Women Sent Recipes To
Chicago Newspaper.
Chicago (Special). Twenty thous
and women tried for a prize offered
by a morning newspaper in a menu
contest for the best 40-cent dinner
for four people. ;
Mr. Frank Leslie Eldrldge, it ras
announced carried off the laurels.
The following Is her menu: Ver
micelli soup, bread and butter; veal
frieassee; mashed potatoes; Dutch
slaw; baked apple: coffee.
Rob Hi Stepmother.
New York (Special). Joseph
Greenberg, a wild youth of 22, who
stripped rings valued at $960 from
bis stepmother's fingers while he
held a revolver at her head, was ar
rested after he had attemDted to
play the bold highwayman in an up
town saloon. He forced nine men
and the bartender to elevate their
hands with a cry of "Money or your
life," but someone shouted "police"
and he fled after shattering plate
glass with two bullets. Pursued by
a policeman the youth turned and
fired twice, one of his bullets dan
gerously Injured a nine-year old boy.
Thirteen Was Hi Lucky Number.
Junea, Alaska (Special). The
only survivor of the 38 miners in
the Mexican shaft of the Treadwell
mine, where a powder magazine ex
ploded last Wednesday, Is lla Dere
tlch, who wore about his neck a
bras identification tag bearing the
numerals 13. He is in tbe hospital
at Douglas, but will soon be out.
Scolding Caused Suicide.
Maple Hill, Hans. (Special). A
scolding by hi woman teacher was
more than Guy Mosea, 14 year old.
could endure and he killed himself.
His parent found hi body when
they went to arose him so that he
might go to. school. "I don't care
to live, because teacher scolded me,"
said a note left by the boy.
FOREIGN SHIPS W1LLBE TAXED
WicKersham Renders An Im
portant Decision.
Attorney General Claim That For
eign Steamship Companies Whose
Vessels Ply Between American
Ports And Those Abroad Are Sub
ject To The Ijaw Imopsing A Tax
On Corporations' Incomes.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
Foreign steamship companies whose
vessel ply between American and
foreign port are subject to the law
Imposing a tax of 1 per cent, on the
net Incomes of the corporations, ac
cording to an opinion rendered by
Attorney General Wlckersham.
Foreign corporations operating In
this country are required to pay
tax on their net Incomes from busi
ness transacted and capital invested
in the United States.
It was Insisted upon tbe part ol
these steamship companies that inas
much as receiving and discharging
cargoes and passenger was a mew
incident to the principal service ren
dered by them, which consisted In
the transportation of cargoes and
passengers over the high seas, the)
had no Income derived from buslnes?
transacted in the United States. Mr.
Wlckersham says he is of the opin
ion that this contention cannot be
maintained, lie declares:
"These companies have a large
amount of capital invested in
wharves, warehouses and other fa
cilities essential to carrying on their
business in this country. Their busi
ness consists entirely In transporting
passengers and goods and merchan
dise between ports in this country
and those of foreign countries and
receiving and discharging the same.
Through agents located here all con
tracts and arrangements Incident to
such a business at this end of their
lines are made, and all reports are
delivered to their warehouses and
are loaded upon their vessels and
their passengers embark while they
are within the limits of the United
States; and likewise while here their
imports are loaded and passengers
from foreign ports disembark."
IN GOES FREE
, WOMAN TO EXILE
Revolutionists Fare Better Than
They Expected.
POOR CASE MADE OUT BY GOVERNMENT.
Mme. ' Rreshkovskaya's Convle
Hon Was Due To Her Confession
That She Was A Revolutionist
Tschaikovsky Will Go To Great
Hritlan. And Mme. Rreshkovaska
ja's Exile Will Not Be Severe.
St. Petersburg (Special). The
trial of Nicholas Tschaikovsky and
Mme. Breshkovskaya, on the charge
of revolutionary conspiracy, ended
with the acqultal of Tschaikovsky
and the comparatively mild sence oi
exile inposed upon Mme. Breshkovs
kaya. Tschaikovsky' counsel was
so pessimistic with regard to tho out
come that he spenttheinterval while
the Jurors retried in planning an ap
peal. Mme Breshkovskaya's counsel
lamented the fact that she lacked
four years of the ago exempting her
from hard labor.
The firBt gleam of hope, however,
came when the Judges dropped the
charge against the woman of preach
ing assassination of the Emperor un
der which exile with hard labor was
inevitable on conviction. The Jurors
deliberated for 10 minutes Then
the door were opened and the ver
dict was rendered. While Mme.
Breshkovskaya's sentence provides a
perpetual ' exile, she escaped hard
labor, which her. counsel considers
a great victory.
A handful of friends surrounded
the prisioners, showering congratu
lations upon them and exchanging
kisses in typical Russian fashion.
Tbe guards allowed tbe woman half
an hour with her friend before tak
ing her to the detention prison,
where she will awolt deportation.
The collapse of the prosecution's
case was due to the utter discredit
ing of Pateuk, who himself 1 orv
ing a life term for murder and oth
er crimes, and the failure of the
crown to present other witnesses
who could connect Tschaikovsky and
Mme. Breshkovskaya with revolu
tionary activity a 'charged In the
indictment. The woraau, however,
had pleaded guilty to being a social
revolutionist. The Juror found that
the business records Introduced amp
ly accounted for Tschaikovsky'
presence In Russia.
Tschaikovsky will leave here Id
three weeks for England. Mme.
Breshkovskaya' exile, a shown by
th experience of others, will be
reasonably comfortable If money Is
forthcoming from either her or her
friends.
Madame Breshkovskaya received
her sentence unmoved, and a mo
ment later asked the correspondent
to send her greetings and best wlahe
to her frlendsln America.
New 18,OO0,0OO I. 8. Rulldlnjr.
Washington. D. C. (Special). A
bill authorizing the construction of
a building in Washington for th
Department of State. Justice and
Commerce and Labor was passed by
the 8enate. The limit of coat Is fix
ed at $12,000,00.
THE NEWS,
Domestic
t'nlted States Commissioner Mark
A. Feote, of Chicago, ordered the
deportation of Bob Lcoog, of El
Paso, Texas, convicted last summer
before Judge Landls of smuggling
Chinese from Mexico.
Thomas Tborne, an actor, well
known in Baltimore, committed sui
cide In Chicago where he was play
ing the poet-reporter In "The Fourth
Estate. '
Cold weather and heavy snowfalls
chetked to a considerable extent
building operations In the principal
clttes of the United States during
February.
The trolley strike In Trenton.- N.
J., was settled when tho Trenton
Street Railway Company granted the
men the wngva they asked 23 cents
an hour.
The Far Eastern Association Medi
cal Conference accept t!je theory
that beri-beri tins its origin !n the
polishing of rice.
John J. Showalter, a Pennsylvania
oil producer. '!0 years old, dropped
dead In the lobby of a ho' el at I-ong
Beach, t'al.
Peter StrikX KiM to bo a dic
couraged lover, was arrested, charged
with dynam.tir.n the home of Mrs.
John Shoku. a widow, of Wilkes
Barre. Pa.
A tablet ha-; been placed In the
University of Pcniisvhsnla, In honor
of John Nixon, who first read the
Declaration of !:i 1: ;.enience la pnb- i
lie. j
The body of Thomas Collier Piatt i
was interred on the hi.it: lit of Ever-
green (."erne" ry. overlooking Oswego,
the city of his bfr'h. I
Rare Sevres ware, lent by the j
French govi-M.ment. will he exhlb-
Red at th" French Hospital Bazar, I
to bv h -11 In New York.
Women both in favor of and op-
posing votes for women, visited the ;
General Assembly at Albany. N. Y.
A. W Shirey, who was ass:msinated j
at Little Hock. Ark., bequeths $200, 1
000 to the Odd Fellows. !
Jefferson M. Andrews, secretary of ,
tho American Sunday School Union, !
died in Philadelphia. !
(Charged with embezzling $100,- 1
000 of the funds of the First Na- i
tlonal Hank of Tipton. Ind., Wil- !
llam H. Marker, formerly cashier of !
the bauk, was placed on trial.
Bloodhounds and detectives are
earchlng for Miss Helen Bloodgood.
who eluded her nurses and disap
peared from Lakewood, N. J.
Loaan M'. Bullitt, the civic re
former, who was arrested by order
of Mayor Reyburn, of Philadelphia,
was fined ten dollars.
Mrs. Jack Cudahy. of KanRas City,
whose husband attacked Banker Jens
F. LUlls, has refused offers to go on
tbe stag.
Edward McGann. paymaster of
the Dexter Coal Company, of Pitts
burg, was held up by highwaymen
and robbed of $4,000.
Crossed electric wires caused a
fre loss of $75,000 at the Westing- j
house Machine Company's plant at :
nttsburg. !
Robbers dynamited a safe in the
feanl. at Edna, Kan., and escaped on i
a handcar with $4,000. i
Excited foreigners caused a run
on the Society 0f Savings Bank, of
Cleveland. O.
Three persons were killed and 2"
Injured y the collapse of fire ruins
In Pittsburg.
The police force of Rutherford, N.
II., has cone on a strike.
P.' tsbure plants have orders for !
10,000 steel railroad cars. j
t oreisrn
The Russian commission cleaning
up the corrupt and demoralized
quartermaster's department of the
army returned 29 more Indictments
of officials, including Major Central
Pllmidaky,
The strike of the Northern coal
miners In New South Wales, whtrh
began l?.-t November, has been de
clared off. Four of the strike load
er were sentenced to imprisonment.
A Russian police inspector was
sentenced to four year In prison for
manufacturing evidences on which
three students narrowly escaped
court-martial and death.
The Prussian Diet adopted the
section of the suffrage bill providing
for secret voting at primary elections
for member of the electoral college
in Prussian districts.
The honor of all concerned having
been vindicated in the two duels
fought by Kugenlo Cblesa In Rome,
the other three engagements in the
code were called off.
The Colombian Minister of For
eign Affairs apologized to the Ameri
can, Minister at Bogota for the be
havior of the mob which attacked
tbe legation.
Jobn Mescl, a Bulgarian, was
hanged In PrUice Albert. Saskatche
wan, for the murder of George Tho
hurn. a farmer, Mrs. Thoburn and
Mrs. Thoburn's mother. Mrs. Mc
Nlvwi. Tbe embezzlement of M. Duez.
tbe liquidator of French church
properties, eatlniated at approx
imately $2,000,000.
Count Ranaund von Pourtales has
been appointed attache to the Ger
man Embassy at Washington.
The first regular air navigation
service 1 to be Inaugurated at Mun
ich, Bavaria, May 10.
Zla Pasha has been appoluted
Turkish ambassador to the United
State.
M. Loralne fell with a Blerlot
monoplane In which he was flying
at Pau. France, at a height of 30
feet, and was badly hurt.
Dr. Carl Lunger, tho mayor of
Vienna and widely known a an anti
Bum lie, died In the Austrian capital.
Tbe anti-American rioting was
checked tn Bogota.
A NEW GIBRALTAR
AT MANILA BAY
Corregidor Island Prepared For
a Long Siege.
COMPLETE PLAnFpTrFECI DEFENSE.
To Be Prepared Far War In The
Pacific The Oovcriiment Has
Made- This Island As Impreg
nable As Possible, So That It May
Be A Place Of Ilefiige For Women
And Children Should The Philip
pines IJe Attacked.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
Preparedness on the Pacific Is the
watchword of the War Department,
and Its most striking expression Is
the creation of a new Gibraltar in
tho Philippines.
Kxperts speculating as tn the pos
sibility of war. even in the remote
future, have nurecd that the first
understanding of an enemy In the
Pacific would be to seize the Philip
pines and Hawaii This seems also
to have been the Judgment of of
ficials of the War Department, and
they have met the fituatlon, so far
as tho Philippines are concerned, by
constructing at the entrance to Ma
nila Pay a stronghold believed to
be able to withstand any force.
Corregidor Island has been put In
a s'ale of perfect defense and pro
visioned for a pnsslb'e bIckp of three
years. Fn'ir in-inc!i guns protect
I lie sea approaches, nr.d batteries of
rapid-fin- gurs tow cover every land
ing place 1 i;e purpose of the
government to place the entire mili
tary fcrce in ti'e islands, together
with all the women and children, on
the Islanl at the first sign of trouble.
Artesian wells have been sunk at
different places on the precipitous is
land. Riving an adequate water sup
ply, and huge tanks have been com
plete) at high points. Insuring grav
ity pressure for fighting (Ire. At
protected points warehouses have
been erected for the three years'
supply of food already accumulated
there
The plan evolved by the military
authorities In the event if war Is to
abandon every military post In the I
archlpelaeo. destroying all property
which would be of service to an
enemy nnd to transfer all the troop?
and resident Americans, together
with the government treasure, to the I
Island and await th ere the pmfni I
of a relief force.
Corregidor Island h approximately
four miles in length and a mile and
a half wide at the broadest point.
It is of volcanic formation and a
nntural fortress.
It was learned Wiat the unusual
secrecy observed in tho recent test of
the new 14-Inch naval gun at Sandy
Hook was not imposed through the
desire to guard from publicity the
effectiveness of the big gun. but was
due to the fact that the target used
was built of the secretly prepared
concrete which Is heing used in the
defense of Corregidor and the neigh
boring Island of K Fralllo.
The Japanese ordnance officers
have designed a 14-inch trim which
Ik almost an exact replica of the I
gun tested at Sandy Hook, and It
was desirable to ascertain the effect
of the fire from this powerful gun
on the material being used In the
battery emplacements of the de
fenses of our Island possessions. It
is reported that the new material
withstood the fire directed against
It most satisfactorily.
TO GHI.KT KOOSEVF.LT.-
Pittsburgprs Plan To Sail To Sea
And Kscort His Ship In.
Pittsburg (Special ) . Pittsburgcrs
are planning to welcome Theodore
Roosevelt on the high seas as he
approaches his home shores. The
Amerlcus Club and the Young Men's
Republican Tariff Club, of which
Mayor Magec is president, are ar
ranging the trip. A Joint meeting
of the clubs will complete plans for
special trains to New York and the
charterlog of a steamer to carry at
least 1,000 persons. It is planned
to sail out about 24 hours and meet
the Roosevelt ship, escorting It to
port.
EKGLISHMEHMOB MR. PATTEN
Make It Hot For Him In English
Cotton Exchange.
Hostile Reception Led By Men Who
Had Lost Largo Amount A A
Result Of American Hpeeulator's
Operations In Chicago On Arriv
ing In Liverpool He I Given
Friendly Greeting On The Corn
Fxchnnge Irritated Over Treat
ment In Manchester.
London (Special). A hostile de
monstration on the floor of the Cot
ton Exchange at Manchester and one
dlreotly contrasting It for friendli
ness on the Corn Exchange, at Liv
erpool, were met with by James A.
Patten, the Chicago wheat and cot
ton operator.
In the first, Mr. Patten was mob
bed and probably escaped injury
only by being rescued by the police;
in the latter he was greeted with
cheering and other manifestation of
friendliness.
Tho brief vacation In England of
the Chicago operator had been spent
mostly about the Liverpool markets,
and he made up his mind to run
over to Manchester to see the city
and visit the cotton exchange.
As soon as Patten appeared on
the floor of the Cotton Exchange a
broker shouted "Patten!" Instantly
hostile c-ies were raised and the air
was filled with "hooings" and hoot
Ings mingled with an occasional
cheer.
Amid the din the brokers rushed
toward the American, who was
quickly surrounded by a threaten
ing mob nnd Jostled hither and
thither, as the pressure of excited
throngs behind carried those in the
circle up and down the floor of the
pit in an exhausting scrimmage.
After a while, the brokers exert
ing their energies in a common di
rection made a final rush and drove
the wheat king out of the door and
Into the street. The business of the
exchange was suspended and hun
dreds of men left the pit and fol
lowed the speculator into Bank
Street, where another cron-d was
soon assembled.
At this point the visitor received
a reception even more riotous than
that which creeted him within the
exchange. The mob hurled epithets,
nnd a hundred fists were shaken at
Patten, who turned deathly pale as
the threatening crowd pressed close
ly and seemed on the point of per
sonally assaulting him.
At a critical moment a strong
force of police arrived and, forcing
their way through the rioters and
officers, surrounded Patten, and a
moment later they had bustled him
Into an office and out the back door
into a cab, in which he was hur
riedly driven to a railroad station.
He took the first train for Liverpool.
ESTRADA SEEKS PEACE.
Kill Himself In Halel.
CobiraJo Springs. Col. (Special).
Earl U. Tbomas. Jr., 30 year old.
the son of Brigadier General Earl
IS. Thomas, commander of the De
partment of Colorado, with bead
quarter In Denver, shortly after 12
o'clock Bred a bullet Into his brain
In hi room at a local hotel, dying
Instantly.
Danced More Than 14 Hours.
San Francisco (Special). Six men
and six women were taken to a hos
pital after dancing without interrup
tion for 14 hours and 41 minutes at
the first annual San Francisco "danc
ing Marathon." The six couples will
divide $140 The legs and backs of
all were badly swollen, and three of
the women will probably be is tbe
hospital for a week or more.
Robbers Esraiie On Handcar.
Edna. Kan. (Special). Robber
dynamited the safe of the Rank of
Edna, secured an amount estimated
at $3,000 and escaped on a hand
car after exchanging shots with a
number of citizens. One of the citi
zen waa shot, but It Is believed he
was not sertous'y wounded.
Sentenced For Ninety-Nine Year.
Kansas CUy. Mo. (Special). Wil
liam Jackson, negro Janitor charged
with attacking six young white girls,
was convicted In the Criminal Court
and sentenced to 99 year Imprison
ment. Former Governor A. H.
Burke, of North Dakota, was fore
man of the Jury.
Harrlman Estate 9140,000,000.
Albany, N. Y. (Special). State
Comptroller William ha recelveJ
$675,000 in partial payment of the
transfer tax on the estate of tbe late
Edward II. Harrlman.
The transfer bureau of the Comp
troller' office estimate that tbe final
settlement will be made on an eBtate
of about $140,000,000.
, Tbe payment Just made la on $71 -000,000.
Revolutionary Leader AskR Vnited
Stutes To Intervene.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
General Estrada, the head of the
Nlcaraguan Revolutionary faction, is
now ready to accept any reasonable
terms as a basis for peace.
The State Department has re
ceived, through the consul at Blue
fields, a communication asking for
the intervention of the I'nlted States
with a view to the selection of a
provisional president other than
himself or Madriz, and an agree
ment between the two factions for
an early election for President un
der the Constitution and a recogni
tion of the rebels.
It is declared to be the intention
of the Uniturf States to keep bands
oil the Nlcaraguan situation until
there Is a practical agreement of the
two faction for an appeal to the
United States.
DIG TOBACCO EARNINGS.
Trusts' Profits One Half Of It
$10,000,000 Cnpital.
New York (Special). The Ameri
can Tobacco Company, which is now
fighting the Federal suit for its die
solution before the United State
Supreme Court, made public its an
nual report for 1809. which showed
that the so-called Tobucca Trust
earned GO'A per cent, on its $40,
000.000 common stock.
The net earnings of the "Trust"
were $30,448,384, an increase of
$1,743,979 over last year, which,
after deductions and preferred stock
dividends, left a balance of $20,327,
296. The report showi that the
company now has a total surplus
of $42,499,140. an atnount larger
than Its Issue of common stock.
KILLED IN ACTO CT.ASH.
Former Virginian Meets I'eitli At
Gary, Ind.
Gary, Ind. (Special). A 1. 'red D.
Mlltecr, secretary of a realty com
pany of this city, waa klllod; John
Geisel, whose horae is at WT.inot,
Minn., was serlouslly injured and
two other men were sightly hurt In
an automobile accident here.
Dr. K. E. Gelsei, a son of John
Geisel, and Ora McNlece, a chaff our.
were tbe two who received minor
injuries.
Miltneer Is survived by a wife and
eight children. He moved here from
Whaleyville, Va., about two years
ago.
MAVNOIt DEFINES LA It ( 'FX V.
Will Not Pay Bills For Phone In
Ofllrliolder' Homes,
New York (Special). .. ..Mayor
Gaynor sent to District Attorney
Whitman tbe bill rendered the city
for telephone used in tbe home of
the old Aqueduct Commlsioner and
hitherto charged by them to depart
ment expense. When the Mayor
waa asked If It la a orlme for a city
official to have a city-paid telephone
In hi borne, he answered that lar
ceny la a crime.
The monvment erected in Statuary
Hall, in the Capitol, to the memorv
of John C. Calhoun was unveiled,
ceremonies bolng held both in the
House and Senate.
The House Committee agred to
favorably report the McCall bill re
quiring the publication of campaign
contributions and expenses.
A medal of honor and a gratuity
were awarded to Chief Electrician
William E. Snyder, of the Navy, for
extraordinary heroism.
The House Committee adopted an
amendment to the administration
railroad bill to prevent stock-watering.
Representative Madden introduced
a resolution whose purpose is tn
greatly enlarge the powers of Con
gress. Chemist Wiley found 92,000,000
germs on an old dollar note handed
to him for investigation.
Former Secretary of the Interior
Garfield stated that Mr. Balllnger,
while commissioner of the Iand
Office, submitted to him an affidavit
signed by Clarence Cunningham, in
which be stated that the Guggen
heim syndicate had no interest in
the Alaska coal lands.
Attorney General Wlckersham
rendered an opinion which stated
that foreign steamship companies
whose vessels ply between American
ports and those abroad are subject
to the corporation tax.
The State Department recolved
word from Consul Wallace at Jeru
salem that two American women
were fired upon by Afghan fanatics
and wounded.
Charles II. Evans, who assisted
tbe congressional committee in pre
paring the various tariff bills from
U72 to 1897, died, aged 78 years.
A boatswain and two seamen of
the U. 8. S. California were com
mended by the Navy Department for
saving a woman from drowning.
President Taft withdrew the nomi
nation of John M. Mulford to be
postmaster at Lebanon, O.
Tho Pnitcd 8tate Military Acad
emy Bill, appropriating $1,700,000,
wab passed by the House.
The Indian Appropriation Bill, car
rying about ten million dollars, pass
ed the Senate.
Savannah. Ga. (Special). James
M. Doyle, for several years teller of
the Hibernla Bank here, Is missing,
as is $10,000 of the bank's cash, tak
en from its vault at the close of busi
ness Saturday night.
Connected by the police with the
disappearance of Doyle Is that of a
woman who left several days before
he did, and with whom the police
assert he was infatuated.
President M. A. O'Rvrno f tha
bank, said that the money was taken
an at one time and in large bills;
that when Doyle left the bank he
put the time lock on the vault so
that it could not be opened until
Monday morning.
Doyle has a wife and several chil
dren here.
THE WRECK OF THE MAINE.
President In Favor Of Raising The
Historic Hulk.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
The President told a delegation of
United Spanish War Veteran that
he was heartily in "faver of the prop
osition to raise the wreck of the
Maine, in Havana harbor. The com
mittee consisted of Charle H. Steph
ens and Mrs. Stephens and Burn
hardt Wall and Mrs. Wall, of New
York; Gen. Nelson A. Miles and sev
eral others. They laid before the
President the rennliiHnnu aHnntof
the Carnegie Hall meeting, in New
York, February 20, asking for the
and Mrs. Wall pinned upon the Pres
ident's coat one of the ribbon which
the society is selling to raise a fund
for tbe wrecking work.
TO ILLL'MINATK TORPEDOES.
Pacific Molina W'fll I'se Them In
Night Iru('tice.
Los Angeles, Cal. (Special). A
week of spectacular night practices
will be begun by the ten vessels of
tbe Paclfio torpedo flotilla. During
practice eight torpedoes will be dis
charged by each destroyer while go
ing at full speed and the torpedoes
will be illuminated so that their
course to the mark may be traced
in the darkness. This week the
flotilla Is at what tbe men call "ping
pong" practice. In which the large
caliber ammunition i supplanted by
service rifles attached to tho guns
and fired at close range targets.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Germany import fruit to the an-1
nnal average value of $22,000,000.
Tbe average yearly slaughter of
foxea In Germany 1 about 20,000.
There are In Alsace-Lorraine 35
champagne factories. Of these Met
ha 15.
A cluster of rod replace the fa
miliar mantle In a new English In
candescent gag light.
All over Europe farmer associa
tion exist for the handling ol farm
product commercially.
Twenty ton of ostrich feather,
valued at more than $500,000 were
recently carried by the Mauretaaia
to New York.
Cotton good are the largest con
tribution to East African Import
from the United Slate. Unbleached
ottun good are called "Amerlcaat,"
saving been flrat Introduced Iy the
aariy American trader about 1830.
i
In a turbine steamer, the rhythmic
thumping of the piston disappear,
and Inrtead tbe engine ive out a
thin soprano song that rlso or fall
In key with the poed, sometimes
suggesting a cotjtlnuous squeal.
To End Siberian Terror.
St. Petersburg (Special). The
Budget Committee of tho Pouma ha
truck at the root of the system of
Siberian exile by cutting the appro
priation fop the administration of
the system to a baro $34,000. Th
committee admitted that the Govern
ment had greatly reduced the num
ber of exile In recent year and de
clared that the system wa bad and
must go. j
Fxpluslou Kill Six. :
Chicago ( Special ) . Six people
were killed and 19 were : Injured
la an explosion In the starch factory
of the Western Glucose Company at
Roby, Ind. . Tbe killed and Injurut
were thrown Into the air by tho fotea
of the explosion. . Help wa sent
from all nearby tejrn.
Bomb For Clerical Dinrr.
Lisbon (Special). Two bomb
were burled Into a room whore a
party of clerical candidate were dln-
lng. Tbe explosion killed two of tbe
diner and wounded aevea other.