ea a Appeal for Audience with Czar is Met with Bullets. PRIESTLY LEADER UNHARMED. Prostrate Men Fired Upon by the Troops That Remained Loyal to the Czar. DESPERATE STATE OF AFFAIRS. Sunday was a day of unspeakable horror in St. Petersburg. The | strikers of Saturday goaded to des- | peration by a day of violence and | bloodshed, are in a state of open in- | surrection against the government. A | condition almost bordering on civil | war exists in the terror-stricken Rus sian capitol. The city is under mar- tial law, with Prince Vasilchikoff as | commander of over 50,000 of the em- | peror’s crack guards. i Troops are pivouacked in the streets at night, and at various places on the | Nevsky Prospect, the main thorough- fare of the city. On the island ot vassili Ostrov and in the industrial soetions infuriated men have thrown up barricades which they are holding. The empress dowas hastily sought safety at Tsarskoe Selo, where Em-| peror Nicholas II. has been living. | There was a rumor that he had fled | ta Peterhof on the Guit of Finland. Minister of the Interor Sviatopolk- Mirsky presented to his 3 urd night the invitatio workmen to appear at ace Sunday afternoon their petition, but the visers already had taken S to show a firm and splute front, and the emperor's ans men trys palace square today wa of troops who met the hayvonet and sabre. The priest Gopon, the leader and idol’ of the men, in his golden vest ments, holding aloft he cross and marching at the head of thousands of * py y solid array m with rifle, workmen through the Nerva gate, miraculously escaped a volley which laid low half a hundred persons. The figures of the total number killed or wounded here, at the Mcscow gate, at various bridges and islands and at the winter palace vary. The best es- timate is 500. although there are ex- aggerated figures placing the num- ber as high as 5,000. Many men were accompanied by their wives and chil- dren. and in the confusion, which left no time for discrimination, the latter shared the fate of the men. The troovs, with the exeept jon of a stngle regiment of infantry, which threw its arms, remained loyal and ob:zyved orders. 1 the blood which erimsoned the fired the brains and pas ers and turned wom into wild beasts, and infuriated populace is for The sympathy of the n es is with the workmen. Military in C The military authorities ha the ¢ to the grip en every ariery day-break guards’ ef and infaniry held eve the frozen Neva, the nals which interlaces i € across of ca- and the 2 cl gates leading from the industrial sec tion. while in the pal ware, at the storm center, goon regiments, maf sacks of the guards. Barred from the bridges and gates men, women. and children cros ed the frozen river and canals on the ice bv twos and threes, hurrying to the pal- ace square, where they were sure the emperor would be present to hear therm. But the street approaches to the sguare were cleared by volleys and Cossack charges. Men and wo- men, rafuriated to frenzy by the loss of loved ones, cursad the soldiers while they retreated. Men harangued the crowds, telling them that the em- peror had foiled “them and that the time had come to act’ Men began to build barricades in the Nevsky Prospect and at other points. 1 any mmaterial that came to hand, and even chopving down, telegraph poles. Fighting meantime continned at var- fons places, soldiers volleyving and charging the mob. The whole city was in a state of panic. Women were * yupning through the streets seek Jost members of their famili eral barricades were carried by troops. Czar’s Officers Are Mobbad. Toward 8 o'cleck in the evening th» a lea¥ing the military As they retreated up Prospect the workme lights. The little chapel at tt gate was wrecked. . Cn the ostov island all the lizhis tineuished. Every officer we wniform of the cmneror found slone wes mobbed Nicholas ce Nerva Kamin- ex- was killed on the and a dozen officers stripoved of their epa ed of their swords. To Cruise inn West Indies. A party of 100 people sailed from Boston on the chartered steamer Hali- fax for a month’s cruise through the West Indies. Among them were Mrs. Mary Schneitzer and G. B. Robinsen of Pittsburs, Miss ‘May McCourt, Thomas H. Groves. Mrs. C. P. O’Mal- ley and C. P. O'Malley of Scranton and D. S. Flock of Chambersburg, Pa. SLAIN IN HIS TRACKS. | Shot by a Veterinarian Who Resented Offensive Remarks. t Pr. Jacob Thayer, a veterinary sur- | prominent local politician of ly killed Will- | geon and Sutton, shot and instant fame Lacey on the streets of that town. The trouble ew out of re- marks alleged to hav been directed hy Lacey to Thay r's stepdaughter. The shoofing took place in Main of spectaters. street in vi ny Thayer made | plaint of discrimination on the part of | | | commodity | George Bellinger. DECIDES AGAINST a iD 115 i Nn ar IIR HAS NARROW ESCAPE Interstate Commerce Commission Up- | b ! hold Contenticn Made “by Live’ : 2 Stock Exchange of Discrimi- | a senimi | Grape Crashes Through Chapel The Interstate Commerce at Windows Where He Was. sion announced its decision in the | EET 0 hicago Live Stock exchange case | CLAIM THAT IT WAS ACCIDENT. sustaining that orgeaization’s com- | the railroads that exact higher rates | for transporting cattle and hogs than | for cerrying live stock “products” to | Chicago from points West, North-| west and Southwest. The commission | holds that the discrimination is not | justified in any way aad subjects the | 3 | death, either through plot or acci- Shots Passed Over the Hears of the Emperor and Other Members of the Dynasty. The Czar of Russia has Just escaped live stock interests to unreasonable prejudice and disadvantage, giving to | Tent. 33 . . the trafic in the “products” of live | Thursday while in a chapel built sfock unreasonable preference. | across the Neva, and while engaged in In the case of William Wrigley, Jr., | the annual ceremony or the blessing against the Cleveland, Cincinnati, | the Waters of the historic fiver, @ Chicago and St. Louis railroad and | charge of grape, fired by the aristo- others, which attacked the railroad’s | cratic Seventeenth battery of the First rule that the minimum charge upon | Horte artillery, firing an. sccom; any single shipment of freight shail | Dany BE sale on a tong, 9 > for. 100 . |the guns of the . Peter an au be for 103 a 22 | fortress, crashed through the win- ticle, this being enforced in the ter- | dows of the palace and those of the ritory south of the Potomac and jaristecratie salons along the river. Ohio and east of the Mississippi, the The shots just Pave over the other represen- | rule is held to be neither unreason- |De2ds of tue emperoy able nor unjustly discriminative | tafives of the Romanoff dynasty, against the complainant's traffic. generals, priests, choristerd and) | sandard bearers on the platform. { Lower, and the dynasty would have Sa been nearly wiped out. One police- If $40,000 Can be Furnished She | Dan was wounded and the bullets cut May Have Freedom | the clothing cf others. red > : | The shot came at the conclusion of On application of Attorney J. P.!the solemn ceremony, the meiropoil- MRS. CHADWICK’S BOND FIXED. Dawley in Criminal Court at Cleve- tan having just dipped the cross into land Judge Neff fixed the bail of | tha river. There was no panic. The | Mrs. Chadwick at $20,000 for her re-| metropolitan quickly proceeded to lease from jail pendiag trial on the | pless the emporer and his entourage | three indietments found against her and con ate the standards anew by the grand jury. To secure her from the sanctified waters of the Ne- freedo Mrs. ‘hadwick must fur- va. The Czar and party then re- ish surity to the total amount of | turned within the winter palace. At $40,00 the United States District [the time the chapel was filled with Court having fixed her bond at $20,-| diplomats, including Ambassador Me- | 000 several days ago. Attorney Daw- | Cormick, secretaries Eddy and Bliss Tovr would be furnis Nathan Loes Chadwick, said that if = furnished bonds for $40.000. to sccure her re-| lease an investigaticn would he begun immediately to ascertain whet not any money c i to the Chad said he expects the required surety | of i ed soon. the American embassy, and repre- of the nobility, while the of the palace, the salons in ghborhood and the quays, monuments and other points were crowded with specta- C Mrs. for oO 5 crash of the shots and ‘were startled 2te has been plac- | by the falling of ‘a gold plate, which ed with her indemnify | had been shot from the wall, but did them against It is ‘the | not at the time know the cause. purpose of the receiver to claim such An investigation is proceeding pend- money or collateral, providing proof ing which “the officers and men of can be found showing the same to be battery are under arrest. It is a part of Mrs. Chadwick’s assets. stated in official circles that at gun +hy ne Mr. Dawley made aa eloguent plea | practice on Tuesday a loaded shell in ask that the Court place the | was inadvertently left in the gun. bond at a reasonable amount. He said | It is certain that the shot was ac- Mrs. Chadwic story had pot been | curately aimed. If plot, the officials told. and that when it is told in court, isay they have a new danger to as it will be in due time, she would be | Czar’s life to watch—the army. placed in an entirely different light. | During the reception following the He declared M Chadwick was at Empercr Nicholas greet- that moment living ill in her cell with | McCormick a complaint that is liable to cause her |accustor death at anv monient. Mr. Dawley |sador conveyed to his majesty Presi- said Mrs. Chadwi 1 S| der elt’s personal greetings a matter of human | and for a happy new al rather than in jail. the —————— | py MACEDCNIAN REFORM FAILS. | re | to rec nkruptey Suit. Dritich Government Will Again Press | Zimmerman & Co., of Its 1cluding Louis L. Ob-| The jacob R. Zimmerman of vinced s hap 2 in the United States a hope- | | : z rere asking that the ing with | the Powers int 1 oe bankrupt. A sched- y . y a titi 1 > pression of the extent to ch th 2 Ton shows the yy be 04 y ig to go to secure more B Io ne 350000 and asseis Zimmerman & Co. operated e and mo probably will 1 VCTy eariy project which Fore downe thinks will insure success. All recent reports show that conditicns ia the interior of real ref het | TERSE TELEGRAMS. Darran nce at St. dropped dead at his lairsville, O. donia no better than before late revolution. { United States cruiser Marble- Tt is expected that if Lord Lans-4& has sailed from Callao for Cor- cowne receives sufiicient support he | oy . will renew the suggestion of a Siswarb 70 years old, . was ago to place : an Erie railroad train at «5 control of a Christian Gov eral responsible to the Pow: to the present Italy alcae has fie or willingness t o-0pera | a her v illingness to co-operate. | © Four Japanese warships are r ts Trench panciers ars! Fo YEE oR 21DS ars repor : : : | ed to be the vicinity of ankavd arranging to supply Torkey with a| 4 fo be In the vicinity of the Lanka | | Smoot on the witness stand he believes in revelations Joan of $25.000.000, the largest part islands, 40 miles north of Penang. of which will be devoted to fitting out |, 128 Allegheny river is closed with irk army with new batteries | ire from the mouth of the Kiskiminet: of quick-firing suns. Simlar orc rs| %8 for a distance of about 18 Dul- | wiles In some places it is piled 15 | Rzet high. ir men held up an Oregon Rail Navigation train for Spok- Poriland, Ore., Saturday passengers were rob- getting about $100 the SMOOT'S TESTIM He Could Net Reveal ment House Secrets. Senator Smoot did not make a very and near Enc>w- | night. Says I | bed, the thiev Several good witness for himself. He waak- harged 11} ed his dzfense palpably. 4 tasial charg wiih ing instructive, willing and e . hE nal machine foie hten the committee listen : 2 a a an Mev tc cvidence involving his alleg rns he Prana nn % t > the government, he was evasive, h bgt Xe Wii be: extradited tating and unsatisfactory. tw Ia at once better, according to all who heard vision of the kh yuadron, commanded Jotrovsky, which has arrived at he remained silent. he took the cath a man Burrows. he wasize the acknow his obligati at the same divi mn. had ment of : cowboys organizing to the inaugura- ment. But most in the to repeat or he en ge the oath that he willingly took i: Roosevelt. The temple when he married his p he own horses and wife. cwboy costume. het i has averted a new Randall Expelled east, which threat- Robert Randall 3 of China amcng the United Mine Workers conv by again cleverly from Dietz, Wyo., who charged to the neutrality of | e dent John Mitchell with hav e. | out to the oj tors durinz.t answer to former Colorado st: complaint, makes the organiz of fraud against Re- vention. Colorado. —_———- comes frem Clifton, Another Indictment. bodies have been re- nee flood last we k, and vered ¢ others are The federal grand jury has an additional indictment Sorenson, charg him v perjury in connection with the land fraud cases now under investigation by the government authorities at Portland, Ore. Sorensen was tried on ed aga block, a brick strue- k, Me., ing $100,000 loss. , City Marshal Till- and killed Postmaster Sam- ‘he Lincoln Brunswi a charge of attempting to bribe form- son, who is also editor of er United States Dis and then ted suicide. but the discha John H. Halli, agree and was in the chapel heard the | s with his | ed cordiality and the ambas- | year, | | which the emperor said he was hap-| Wooster National Bank, | still eatangled in the | was destroy- | GOVERNOR SETTLES STRIKE. Both Cotton Mill Workers and Own- ers Claim Victory. The strike of the cotton mill opera- tives at Fall River, which affected about 25,000 persons and has been in progress for six months, was set- tled through the mediation of Govern- or Douglas. Under the terms of an agreement accepted at a conference held at the State House the strikers will return to work at once under the 121% per cent reduction, against which they struck last July, and with no diserimination because of the strike. It was agreed, however, that Gov- ernor Douglas shall investigate the matter of cotton to the mill-owners and the selling price of the cloth and submit his conclusions as to the aver- age margin upca which the manu- facturers are to pay a dividend of 5 per cent on wages earned from the present time to April 1. Both sides regard the outcome as a victory. RUSSIA THANKS HAY. Assurances From China That She Is Trying to Preserve Neutrality. Russia through Count Cassini, ex- | pressed her thanks to the American | Government for its prompt action in calling to China’s attention the charg- es that her neutrality was being vio- | Jated. The Russian Ambassador re- ceived a note from Secretary Hay acknowledging the communication of | Count Lamsdorf and informing the | Ambassador that the American Gov- | ernment had promptly called China's attention to the charges and express- ed the fervent hope that China's neutrality as well as her administra- would be faithfully pre- | tive entity served. The Secretary further said that the Chinese Minister had assured him that his Government was equally de- sirous of remaining strictly neutral | and was doing her utmost to prevent | 7ioiations of her neutrality. | | | TO STUDY FOREIGN TRADE. President Urges Naming of Six “Commercial Attaches.” | The President sent a message to | the Senate recommending favorable | action upon a suggestion of Assistant | Secretary Loomis for co-operation by | the Departments of State and Com- | merce and Labor in collecting infor- mation concerning trade conditions in foreign countries. The President | recommends that provision be made | for six special agents to be called | commercial attaches, to visit the dif- | ferent countries. The details of the proposed plan | i are set out in a long letter from Secretary Loomis, who feels his plan $50,000 per attaches or sufficient to annum. special agents initiate the They would be salaried at $5,000 per | annum and traveling expenses, and { would he assigned one to cover Aus- tria, the Balkan States, Germany, | switzerland, Russia and other coua- will Mediterranean sea; a third for Great Britain and dependencies; can be put iato execution at a cost of | Six commercial | be | movement. | the fourth | | | tries of Northern Europe; one for | France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and | other countries bordering on the | for Mexico, Central America, the West | Indies and South America; the fifth for Asia and more particularly Asiatic Russia, China and Japan, and the sixth io be held in reserve for special service. COAL STRIKE SPREADS. Nearly 200,000 German Miners Now idle—Government Fears Disorder. | The situation districts is becoming more serious daily. The number of strikers offici- ally reported mow reaches which is mere than double the num- ber who quit work in Germany’s pre- vious greatest strike, which was the | coal miners’ strike of 1899. Everything now indicates that the in the coal mining | MANY LIVES WERE LOST Huge Wave Engulfs Norwegian Community. FIFTY-NINE WERE DROWNED. Hundreds Buried in the Ruins of Buildings Caused by Earthquake In Russian Town. Fifty-nine persons perished as the result of an avalanche of rocks at Naesdal, north of Bergen, Sunday. A mass of rock was suddenly precip- itated into Loenvand lake from the neighboring hills, causing an immense wave, 20 feet high, which swept the neighboring shores. Houses, people and cattle were swept away by the rush of water and it is known that 59 persons perished. Thus far only four bodies have been recovered. A great storm today stopped the re- lief work, as the surrounding district is unable to send help. Hundreds Killed by Earthquake. An earthquake at Shemakha, 76 miles northwest of Baku, buried hun- dreds of people in the ruins of build- ings in the lower part of the town, despite the decision after the earth- quake of three years ago that no more | houses should be built there. CARNEGIE PAYS LOSSES. Makes Good Deposits of Oberlin Stu- dents in Wrecked Bank. President King of Oberlin College, announced at chapel that all moneys lost by students through the failure of the Citizens National bank, which closed its doors at the time of the alleged Chadwick forgeries, would be paid on presentation of their pass- books. President King announced further that Andrew Carnegie was the man doing this. At the time of the failure the stor- ies of privation and hardship which would ensue to students and others who had their all in the bank were brought to Mr. Carnegie’s attention and he immediately ordered a list pre- pared of all worthy depositors. Teo- day a check was received from Mr. Carnegie, who, President King stated, while innocently figuring in the bank failure and in no wise responsible, did not wish to see deserving students and others suffer. Besides reimbursing the depositors Mr. Carnegie reimburses the Y. M. C. A. to the extent of about $3,000, which had been laid aside for a new building and which was lost in the same failure. STEEL CORPORATION WINS. New Jersey Vice Chancellor Says It Is Not Obliged to Pay Dividend. At Trenton, N. J, Vice Chancellor Stevenson filed an opinion sustaining the demurrer of the United States Steel Corporation in the suit against that company by Alfred F. Stevens | to compel the payment of dividends on Steel common, practically dispos- ing of the whole case. Stevens filed a bill to enforce the payment of dividends on the com- mon stock out of alleged accumula- tion of profits amounting in January, 1904, to $66,000,000. Chancellor Stev- | enson says that while $66,000,000 is 185,000, | | strike will be a long and bitter one. | | The question is how long the miners can hold out. Government officials are taking measures accordingly for preventing outbreaks. In some towns the police have ordered that saloons be closed at an. earlier hour than us- ual. Nen-union laborers are joining the unions, in great numbers, and the miners evidently are determined to make a hard fight before surrender- ing. Leaving Ccal Combine. Next season M. A. Hanna & Co. and Pickands, Mather & Co., of the lake coal trade will be independent of the Pittsburg Coal Company. The withdrawal of the two firms comes at the end of a five * years’ contract. Martin Mullen, a prominent coal op- erator, also of Cleveland, recently severed his relations with the Pitts- burg Coal Company and has become a partaer with the Hanna and Pickands interests. One Treaty Ratified, One Made. In executive session the Senate ratified the extradition treaty with Spain. There was no discussion. Secretary Hay and Minister Grip of Sweden and Norway to-day signed an arbitration treaty between this coun- try and Norway and Sweden’ The government school for Indians on the Menominee reservation, near Shawano, Wis., was burned, causing a loss of $50,000. The Niagara to Be Raised. The House Committee on Naval Affairs ordered a favorable report on the bill introduced by Representative Arthur L. Bates, of Meadville, appro- priating $10,000 for raising the hull of the Niagara, Commodore Perry’s flagship, which was sunk off Presque Isle peninsula during the battle of | Lake Eri The vessel is to be plac- ed in the grounds of the Soldiers and Sailors’ home at Erie, and be on free exhibtion. a large amount in itself it is only 6 per cent of the company’s capital stock, and there is no proof to show the company has this money in actu- al cash, and there is nothing to indi- cate a policy on the part of its pre- ferred stockholders. Bosten Wool Market. The wool market is noticeably quiet for domestic grades. The market is generally firm. Leading quotations are: Ohio and Pennsylvania XX and above, 35@36c; No. 1, 38@39¢; No. 2, 40@41c; unwashed, 24@25c; 14 blood unwashed, 23@33c; 3; blood, 32@ 32%¢; 1%, blood, 31@31c; washed de- laine, 27@28c; unmerchantable, 29@ 30c; fine washed delaine, 37@38c. Michigan, washed business, 22@23c; 34 blood, 311% @32¢c; 1% blood, 30@31c; unwashed delaine, 25@26c. Kentucky, Indiana, 34 and 14 blood, 31@32c. RUSSIAN STRIKE CRIS!S. Socialists Urging Workmen to an Outbreak. The strike situation in Russia, is becoming very grave. There are 53,- 000 men out on strike and the move- ment is spreading to the big cotton mills, which employ 50,000 opera- tives. Meetings have been called at which the socialistic democratic lead- ers will use their utmost endeavors to convert the striking workmen to a vast political demonstration, which, at the present crisis, might have most serious developments. The authori- ties are adopting every precaution to avoid an outbreak, but the socialistic Democrats are spurring on the strik- ers, and there is great danger of a collision with the troops, which would be almost sure to be followed by red flag demonstrations, accompanied by great bloodshed. > President Roosevelt has refused the application of leading Somerset county, Pa. for a pardon for Frederick M. Baker, serving a life sentence at the San Quentin prison, California, for desertion from the ma- rine corps in 1899, while in the Philip- pine islaads. Must Pay Depositors in Full. W. B. Ridgeway, the comptroller of the currency sent a notice to the stockholders of the First National bank. of Claysville, Pa., which failed last September informing them that they must pay 100 cents on the dollar to the depositors of the failed bank. It will be remembered that the cash- jer of the institution embezzled a large amount of the funds of the bank which caused it to close its doors. The bank had a capitalization of $50,- 000. RADIUM IN THE HEAVENS. Professor Snyder of Philadelphia An- nounces Startling Discoveries. Professor Monroe B. Snyder, direc- tor of the Philadelphia Observatory, announced he has discovered the. ex- istence of radium in the solar photo- sphere and of radium emanation in the solar corona and in the auroral streamers of the earth. He also finds that radium and radium emanation, the latter identical with coronium, are widely and correlatively distributed in stars,’ nebulae, and very probably in comets. He further announces these laws: First—There is universal celestial radioactivity, namely, negative or associative, and positive or dissocia- tive transformation of the elements with accompanying absorption and emission of radiant energy of charac- teristic frequencies and intensities. Second—Maximum 'radio-activity is critically dependent upon the energy gradient, and is, therefore, periodic and often local in sun, stars, new stars, nebulae and comets. WORKERS PROSPEROUS. MINE All Four of the Central Competitive Districts Show Gains. citizens of | President Mitchell of the United: | Mine Workers of America announc- | ed committees for the national com- | vention. Among the appointees are: | Patrick Dolan of Western Pennsylvan- ia on Appeals and Grievances; John | Nugent of West Virginia on Officers’ | Reports; Clark Johnston of West Vir- | ginia and G. M. Savage of Ohio on | Transportation, and C. Evans of Ohio | on Committee to Assign Resolutions. | Of the $1,087,300.47 spent last year | by the United Mine Workers for the | relief of strikers, $437,575.10 went into the Colorado district. All four of the | central competitive districts—West- | ern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and | Minois—show net gains. Western | Pennsylvania went from 21,595 to 23,844, a gain of 2,249 members; Ohio | went from 38,342 to 40,566, a gain of | 2,224. Vote to Impeach Swayne. After a day of bitter fighting the House of Representatives, by the narrow margin of six votes, decided to make good the impeachment of Judge Charles Swayne, voted on De- cember 13. The test. -vote was on a motion by ' Repre- sentative Littlefield of Maine to lay on the table the first three ar- ticles, all based on the false certifi- cates whereby the Judge extracted about $7,500 from the Treasury to which he was not entitled. The vote on that was 165 to 159. After that the first seven of the twelve articles were adopted with varying majorities. The last five were adopted without the formality of roll calls. Most Disastrous Quarter on Record. The Inter-State Commerce Commis- sion has issued a report on railroad accidents in the United States during the months of July, August and Sep- tember, 1904, showing 228 passengers and 183 employes killed and 2,154 passengers -and 1,593 employes injur- ed in train accidents. Other acci- dents to passengers and employes not the result of collisions or derailments bring the agaregate casualties for the quarter up to 1,032 kilied and 13,307 injured. The report says that while these figures show a gratifying de- crease in the number of employes killed the three months as a ‘whole may be termed the most disastrous quarter on record in fatal accidents to passengers. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. Philander €C. Knox was elected United States senator in the house and scpate at Harrisburg. William Zimmerman, a Pittsburg division freight brakeman, had his legs cut off by a train at Cresson, Pa., and will probably die. The business block and bakery of David Cartwright, at Ellwood City, Pa., were destroyed by fire. The loss is $1,500, covered by insurance. During a quarrel among employes in the Carnegie mill at Youngstown, Q., Patrick Collins stabbed James Cunningham, escaped before the officers arrived, and has mot been captured. Cunningham is from Pitts- Yurg and may die. The traction company at New Cast- \e, Pa., which at first refused to com- yly with an ordinance to use modern fenders on the cars, has decided to do <0. A. B. Loutzenheiser, paying teller of the First National bank of Duluth, Minn., is charged with the theft of $10,000 from the bank, and a warrant has been sworn out for his arrest. He left December 20 for Pennsylvania. The istbmian canal commission has received a requisition from the canal zone for 30,000 tons of coal for use in connecticn with the construction work and bids will be called for im- mediately. CABLE BRIEFS. A collision. in which three trains } were involved, including two Scoteh | expresses, occurred on t i | railway. Four pa ln a, | railway men were killéd ‘and a’ score injured. The accident occurred in a o | The Ttalian Government has- de- creed the abolition of slavery in Italy's East African colonies. There is no truth in the published report that King Oscar of Sweden and Norway is dangerously ill. Grand Change All Around. | A joint resolution introduced by Representative Reeder of Kansas pro- poses an amendment to the act pro- viding that members of the House be chosen every third year; that Sena- tors to be elected by direct vote and that Congress shall assemble at least once each year on the sixth of Janu- ary. The term of the President is fix- ed at six years and he shall not be eligible for re-election. The first Tuesday in May is d as inaugural I oi ARTES N un! ho: Tr We Ch di
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